[SFS] Struggling with regex / file renaming

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:45:52 -0600

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Seemed to work fine for me by quoting the entirety of each variable:

for f in *.mpg; do mv "$f" "$(echo $f | sed -e 
's/\([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\)/s\1e\2/')"; done

> Matt James <mailto:matuse@gmail.com>
> July 13, 2016 at 11:52 PM
> Gents,
> So - I'm trying to clean up some file names so that plex will index
> my Simpsons episodes correctly.
>
> Currently, I have stuff named like this:
>
> 1205 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg
> 1206 The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.mpg
> 1207 The Great Money Caper.mpg
> 1208 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg
>
> That is - first two numbers are the season, second two are the episode.
>
> I'd like to rename them like this:
>
> s12e05 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg
> s12e06 The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.mpg
> s12e07 The Great Money Caper.mpg
> s12e08 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg
>
> so, after a little man pages and google, I tried the following:
>
> matt@owncloud:/backup/SIMPSONS/12$ for f in *.mpg; do echo mv $f
> $(echo $f | sed -e 's/\([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\)/s\1e\2/'); done
> mv 1205 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg s12e05 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg
> mv 1206 The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.mpg s12e06 The Computer Wore
> Menace Shoes.mpg
> mv 1207 The Great Money Caper.mpg s12e07 The Great Money Caper.mpg
> mv 1208 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg s12e08 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg
>
> Basically, I'm searching for a group of two numbers and then another
> two numbers and then I'm replacing with an "s", then group 1, then
> "e", then group 2, and then the rest of the file name.
> this seems to do what I want, except when I take out the "echo" in the
> for loop - it doesn't actually work because I'm not escaping the
> spaces correctly (I think that's why it's failing anyway)
>
> so - I tried this:
>
> matt@owncloud:/backup/SIMPSONS/12$ for f in *.mpg; do echo mv $f
> ${f/([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])/s\1e\2/}; done
> mv 1205 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg 1205 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg
> mv 1206 The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.mpg 1206 The Computer Wore
> Menace Shoes.mpg
> mv 1207 The Great Money Caper.mpg 1207 The Great Money Caper.mpg
> mv 1208 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg 1208 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg
>
> but, as you can see - it's not matching the search anymore and so it
> just returns the same filename instead of the modified one.
>
> What am I missing? Is there a better way? It's almost midnight - I'm
> putting this down for now - maybe one of you can help....
>
> Matt
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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Seemed to work fine for me
 by quoting the entirety of each variable:<br>
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for f in *.mpg; do mv "$f" "$(echo $f | sed -e 
's/\([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\)/s\1e\2/')"; done<br>
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__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody"><div>Gents, So - I'm 
trying to clean up some file names so that plex will index my 
Simpsons episodes correctly. Currently, I have stuff named like 
this: 1205 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg 1206 The Computer Wore Menace
 Shoes.mpg 1207 The Great Money Caper.mpg 1208 Skinner's Sense of 
Snow.mpg That is - first two numbers are the season, second two 
are the episode. I'd like to rename them like this: s12e05
 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg s12e06 The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.mpg s12e07
 The Great Money Caper.mpg s12e08 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg so,
 after a little man pages and google, I tried the following: matt@owncloud:/backup/SIMPSONS/12$
 for f in *.mpg; do echo mv $f $(echo $f | sed -e 
's/$[0-9][0-9]$$[0-9][0-9]$/s\1e\2/'); done mv 1205 Homer vs. 
Dignity.mpg s12e05 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg mv 1206 The Computer Wore 
Menace Shoes.mpg s12e06 The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.mpg mv 1207
 The Great Money Caper.mpg s12e07 The Great Money Caper.mpg mv 1208 
Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg s12e08 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg Basically,
 I'm searching for a group of two numbers and then another two 
numbers and then I'm replacing with an "s", then group 1, then "e", 
then group 2, and then the rest of the file name. this seems to do 
what I want, except when I take out the "echo" in the for loop - it 
doesn't actually work because I'm not escaping the spaces correctly 
(I think that's why it's failing anyway) so - I tried this: matt@owncloud:/backup/SIMPSONS/12$
 for f in *.mpg; do echo mv $f ${f/([0-9][0-9])([0-9][0-9])/s\1e\2/};
 done mv 1205 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg 1205 Homer vs. Dignity.mpg mv 
1206 The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.mpg 1206 The Computer Wore Menace
 Shoes.mpg mv 1207 The Great Money Caper.mpg 1207 The Great Money 
Caper.mpg mv 1208 Skinner's Sense of Snow.mpg 1208 Skinner's Sense of
 Snow.mpg but, as you can see - it's not matching the search 
anymore and so it just returns the same filename instead of the 
modified one. What am I missing? Is there a better way? It's 
almost midnight - I'm putting this down for now - maybe one of you 
can help.... Matt _______________________________________________ SFS
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