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
I use KRename for renaming multiple files.
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.
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 ;)
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.
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 :)
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]
or if you are comfortable with command line and some replacement shenanigans, there is always mmv
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zshyou can usezmvfor this. Another command line solution isfindbut it’s a bit harder to figure out the correct command in my experience.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.
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
I use nomino for this purpose.
This can be done natively in Thunar if you happen to use XFCE.
I use the bulk renamer from thunar https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start
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.
