From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-131874-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1RW6cE-0000xw-98 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:23:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C84F21C083; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E1221C031 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakk12 with SMTP id k12so2600361iak.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:22:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8kQVilegALTkUu+6Lm858kENLTx4ExFNmYliduuxIeI=; b=jjOHS/b4NpGGMRXAepmZsAGlJQwmwaXPTfVja0vogYTTG8PMqnxrd7EslXMvhZIsit n7aHR9b3rUTNRl/IW37hB5YVOCS+n+NurlP1RTJ7DlfRuv2JFsc/9eh4WaG13vf5tM1P tcM1DXNt+v+xVEEjU3k+aPd9hzSCcvdqTEGXg= Received: by 10.42.162.130 with SMTP id y2mr8803812icx.26.1322745750928; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:22:30 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.227.198 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 05:22:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1322736912.841.0@numa-i> References: <4ED6DD26.1070604@gmail.com> <911986BB-0850-4126-BB82-39C1A747EC2D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <1322736912.841.0@numa-i> From: James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:22:09 +0000 Message-ID: <CA+hid6FXrv-itfi7Sd-5eO0h+34E91Kh3-it9UjH16wGMLuZkA@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f0f29389-46ab-492a-9b1b-c12a66fa04dd X-Archives-Hash: 978494d3120c4189d72821853945cee3 On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wr= ote: > On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: >> > ... >> > I ran into a problem. =C2=A0I been downloading a lot of TV shows. =C2= =A0I >> forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. =C2=A0This 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 >> > I'm surprised that no one mentioned 'mmv', which I switched to from rename. It has nice simple syntax, which is good for the _one thing that it does_, which makes it nice and unixy. All I've ever needed (I use python for anything more complex) ? Single character match * String match until next token #1, #2 , #3 for first match, second match etc. cd /data/Movies/TV_Series/ # for all series mmv "*/*" "#1/#1-#2"