On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:22 AM, James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@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. :)
