Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

[Francisco Ares]

I use the following script to remove parts of downloaded videos, I guess it
wont't be hard to figure out how to change it to your needs. It also
creates a text file with the name of the file and, expecting it to be a
video file, it uses midentify, part of the mplayer package, to read the
duration of the video in a form that LibreOffice is able to import directly.



#! /bin/bash
for i in *unwantedString.???   # it can be a MP4 or a FLV
do
   if [ "$i" != "*unwantedString.???" ]   # this checks if the list is empty
   then
       j=`echo $i | sed s/\ \-\ unwantedString//`
       # echo $j
       mv "$i" "$j"
   fi
done

for i in *.mp4 *.flv  # this removes duplicated file extension
do
   if [ "$i" != "*.mp4" ] && [ "$i" != "*.flv" ]
   then
      j=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4\.mp4/\.mp4/ -e s/\.flv\.flv/\.flv/`
      # echo $j
      if [ "$i" != "$j" ]
      then
         mv "$i" "$j"
      fi
   fi
done

if [ -e contents.txt ]
then
   rm contents.txt
fi
for i in *.mp4 *.flv
do
   if [ "$i" != "*.mp4" ] && [ "$i" != "*.flv" ]
   then
      j=`midentify "$i" | grep ID_LENGTH | cut -d\= -f 2`
      k=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4//g -e s/\.flv//g`
      echo -e $k \\t 00:00:`echo $j | cut -d\. -f1`,`echo $j | cut -d \.
-f2` >> contents.txt
   fi
done

Hope it helps
Francisco




On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> Greets,
>
> I ran into a problem.  I been downloading a lot of TV shows.  I forgot to
> put a sort of important part in the names.  This is what I have with the
> full path:
>
> /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4
>
> This is what I need it to be:
>
> /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1,
> Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4
>
> Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file.
>  They will all be added to the front of the names.  They also almost all
> contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \.
>
> Is there a way to do this?  I have room to copy them to another directory
> if needed.  I would sort of actually prefer it that way since if it messes
> up, I got the originals at least.
>
> Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things.  I suspect
> those will be used tho.  I am familiar with | and grep tho.  ;-)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> --
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
> how you interpreted my words!
>
>
>


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