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

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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] saint@group.lt 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how can you identify season from the file name?

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

One approach: Look up what TV show has 291 episodes; land on this Wikipedia page which gives you the season lengths.

[–] Immortal0861@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I use KRename for renaming multiple files.

[–] Redscare867@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zShxck@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

If I was able to do that i would not have asked here lol

[–] words_number@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I use nomino for this purpose.

[–] dart@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] gaf@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

This can be done natively in Thunar if you happen to use XFCE.