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
krenamer can do this. It just is a regex front end. You could do it with a shell script too.
That’s what i started using :)
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.
I use nomino for this purpose.
you can try rename: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html
or
rename 's/expression/replacement/' filenameselect 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.
how can you identify season from the file name?
One approach: Look up what TV show has 291 episodes; land on this Wikipedia page which gives you the season lengths.
good and fun idea ;)
I use the bulk renamer from thunar https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start
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.
If I was able to do that i would not have asked here lol
Would the tvnamer utility help?
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]
