Sorry, did not read your message to the end.
So the sixth line on that script, on your case, instead of:
j=`echo $i | sed s/\ \-\ unwantedString//`
should be:
j="Person of Interest - "$i
I guess that's it. You will have to open a console at the directory where
your movies are in.
Francisco
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use the following script to remove parts of downloaded videos, I guess
> it wont't be hard to figure out how to change it to your needs. It also
> creates a text file with the name of the file and, expecting it to be a
> video file, it uses midentify, part of the mplayer package, to read the
> duration of the video in a form that LibreOffice is able to import directly.
>
>
>
> #! /bin/bash
> for i in *unwantedString.??? # it can be a MP4 or a FLV
> do
> if [ "$i" != "*unwantedString.???" ] # this checks if the list is
> empty
> then
> j=`echo $i | sed s/\ \-\ unwantedString//`
> # echo $j
> mv "$i" "$j"
> fi
> done
>
> for i in *.mp4 *.flv # this removes duplicated file extension
> do
> if [ "$i" != "*.mp4" ] && [ "$i" != "*.flv" ]
> then
> j=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4\.mp4/\.mp4/ -e s/\.flv\.flv/\.flv/`
> # echo $j
> if [ "$i" != "$j" ]
> then
> mv "$i" "$j"
> fi
> fi
> done
>
> if [ -e contents.txt ]
> then
> rm contents.txt
> fi
> for i in *.mp4 *.flv
> do
> if [ "$i" != "*.mp4" ] && [ "$i" != "*.flv" ]
> then
> j=`midentify "$i" | grep ID_LENGTH | cut -d\= -f 2`
> k=`echo $i | sed -e s/\.mp4//g -e s/\.flv//g`
> echo -e $k \\t 00:00:`echo $j | cut -d\. -f1`,`echo $j | cut -d \.
> -f2` >> contents.txt
> fi
> done
>
> Hope it helps
> Francisco
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greets,
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
>> --
>> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
>> how you interpreted my words!
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
> and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have
> one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
> - George Bernard Shaw
>
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and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have
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