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

[Dale]

Dale 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 got them all changed, about 250 or so of them.  Thanks to *all* for 
the replies.  I got to save and review some of the command line ones 
too.  May learn something.  Sort of reminds me of my old Vic-20.  O_O

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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