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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use KRename for renaming multiple files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how can you identify season from the file name?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

good and fun idea ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can take a look at "sonarr", it's made for managing your tv-shows and it can automatic rename and organize your files, with customizable naming schem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you can try rename: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html

or
rename 's/expression/replacement/' filename

select range of episodes per season then add season number (eg S01) in replacement string.

then restart numbering for next set of episodes (eg 01 to 12) and add S02. and so on. more tedious than the gui Rename method but doable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's what i started using :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would the tvnamer utility help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I looked into it yesterday, and i don't think is good for me, I actually need the format S01E01 and not its standard like [1x01]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

or if you are comfortable with command line and some replacement shenanigans, there is always mmv

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In zsh you can use zmv for this. Another command line solution is find but it's a bit harder to figure out the correct command in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] words_number 1 points 1 year ago

I use nomino for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This can be done natively in Thunar if you happen to use XFCE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If I was able to do that i would not have asked here lol

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