Is there a way to rename a lot of files on a progressive way? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by zShxck@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I have 291 episodes named tv.show.01.mp4 to tv.show.291.mp4 and i want rename them to be named like Tv Show Episode S01E01.mp4. I use Linux so please suggest only FOSS compatible programs

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[-] helpmeDanaScully@zerobytes.monster 2 points 2 years ago

krenamer can do this. It just is a regex front end. You could do it with a shell script too.

[-] zShxck@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's what i started using :)

[-] helpmeDanaScully@zerobytes.monster 1 points 2 years ago

KRename

[-] dart@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Please don't use spaces in your *nix filenames, that is just bad. To answer your question, use a bash script. Chatgpt can probably even make it for you if you don't know how to write it.

[-] zShxck@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I know but jellyfin suggest to use that type of nomenclature so...

[-] words_number@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I use nomino for this purpose.

[-] Redscare867@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Why not just do this with a for loop in the terminal? I don’t think you need to over complicate it by downloading another program.

[-] saint@group.lt 1 points 2 years ago

how can you identify season from the file name?

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

One approach: Look up what TV show has 291 episodes; land on this Wikipedia page which gives you the season lengths.

[-] saint@group.lt 1 points 2 years ago

good and fun idea ;)

[-] malpingu 1 points 2 years ago

There are various GUI tools (eg., gprename, krename) but I prefer qmv, a CLI tool from the renameutils package. It opens filenames into a vim (or your default editor) session, with which you can use global regex search/replace commands to rename files.