Automate renaming of video files

Question

I have a lot of files I want to rename and it would take me a long time to do them manually. They are video files and are usually in this format - \"NAME OF SHOW - EPISODE N

Answer 1

The following script will find all .mp4 with one string of 3 consecutive numbers. Example something.111.mp4 . It will convert it to something.S01E11.mp4 . It will also exclude any sample files.

find . ! -name "*sample*" -name '*.[0-9][0-9][0-9].*.mp4' -type f | while read filename; do mv -v "${filename}" "`echo $filename | sed -e 's/[0-9]/S0&E/;s/SS00E/S0/g'`";done;

Like the previous script it will only work if less than 10 seasons.

For those that are trying to personalize for their current directory tree, I would recommend learning the sed and find command. They are pretty powerful, are simple, and will allow you to substitute any string within a file name.