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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 07:49:26PM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> 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?
> I can’t remember right now what graphical environment you use, but for KDE
> there is KRename. But if you want it quick and efficient, I suggest
> renameutils. You give it a list of files and it opens $EDITOR containing two
> columns with the list. The first is the old name, and in the second you can
> enter the new name.
>
> It’s basically a mass renamer for the console, powered by your favorite
> features of your favorite editor. With the recursive flag -R you can even do
> what you want for many dirs at once and then insert the Series name using
> search and replace with regular expressions.
>
> But your particular example could be done simply with:
>
> cd "/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest"
> for i in *.mp4; do mv -n "$i" "Person of Interest - $i"; done

Oh heck yea.  Krename did a wonderful job.  It renamed them in place.  I 
tested it on a small directory with just a few files at first.  This is 
cool.  I didn't know KDE had this and it wasn't installed either.

No grep, gawk or sed in the command line for this?  Wow.  I thought 
there would be at least a couple of those in there.  lol

Thanks for the info.  I didn't even think there would be a GUI for 
this.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-)

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