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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 07:51:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2ND9kwQ3Sar=5ovyfQ_Wheg_DRUFRqRz5zPkHOmjc8cgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+hid6FXrv-itfi7Sd-5eO0h+34E91Kh3-it9UjH16wGMLuZkA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:22 AM, James Broadhead
<jamesbroadhead@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, 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
>>> >
>
> 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"
>

Seconded. I use mmv all the time! And I used to use "ren", its predecessor. :)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-01 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-01  1:49 [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually Dale
2011-12-01  2:18 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-01  2:46   ` Dale
2011-12-01  2:19 ` Francisco Ares
2011-12-01  2:23   ` Francisco Ares
2011-12-01  2:22 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-01  2:29   ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-01  2:22 ` bill.longman
2011-12-01  3:23   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-01  4:18 ` Dale
2011-12-01  8:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-01  9:34 ` Stroller
2011-12-01 10:42   ` Dale
2011-12-01 15:29     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-02 17:33       ` James Broadhead
2011-12-02 10:50     ` Stroller
2011-12-02 15:43       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-01 10:55   ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-12-01 13:22     ` James Broadhead
2011-12-01 13:51       ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-12-02 10:21     ` Stroller

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