[Linux] Movie-folder-renamer (Bash + Perl)

[jocke]

Hi,

This isn't really a post-process script, but I thought I'd share it anyhow.

I recently started using CouchPotato together with SABnzbd. When it has downloaded a movie, I've set it to move it + rename it as well, using the following naming-convetion;

()

Previously I used to just keep the original folder-name, and this became a mess -- it was, amongst other things, difficult to see if I had duplicates, and all movies starting with "The" was at the same place when sorting.

I then wanted to rename all the "old" folder-names using the same naming-convetion as CouchPotato, so I wrote a quick movie-rename-script in Bash and Perl. Nothing super-fancy, and it could be improved in probably a million places, but it did what I wanted at the time, so I thought I'd share it.

Basically it splits all the movies in two; those who already contain the release-year in the folder-name, and those who don't. This means that if you don't have the release-year in the folder-name, the new folder-name will just be "", without any "()". I could probably parse this from an IMDB-crawl or whatever, but I never bothered (I mostly use movie-software that pulls this information anyways).

So, to summarize the steps of the scripts;
- Gather a list of all folders from specified folder
- Find out what folders has a release-year, and those that doesn't
- Process the two separately
- Remove unwanted stuff from the folder-name
- Capitalize first character in all words except the first, and all words like "the", "of", "for", etc...
- If movie-name starts with "The", move it to the end; "The Transporter" becomes "Transporter, The"
- Move it
- Done

An example-folder;
/path/to/movies/The.Lord.Of.The.Rings.The.Return.Of.The.King.2003.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264.PROPER-SOMEGRP
will be moved/renamed to;
/path/to/movies/Lord of the Rings the Return of the King, The (2003)


If something doesn't work, feel free to report it, and I'll see if I'll bother to fix it :-P

Lastest version of the script is available here; http://git.jocke.no/rename-movie-folder ... folders.sh

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[wreckedred]

Hey - I so want this to work but it didn't....says it did but nothing actually got renamed


drew@htpc:~/scripts/prod$ ./doclean.sh
/home/drew/Videos/New/Match.Of.The.Day.2012.04.28.480p.HDTV.x264-mSD -> /home/drew/Videos/New/Match of the Day (2012)
Number of folders that was moved: 1


drew@htpc:~/Videos/New$ ls
Match.Of.The.Day.2012.04.28.480p.HDTV.x264-mSD

[J03 8LACK]

wreckedred,

If you trying to match CouchPotato naming convention

Why not use CouchPotato to do the work for you.

Point CouchPotato's Download folder (Renaming Tab)to the folder of all your movies. ( or make a samller folder to test )

Then Point CouchPotato's Movie destination to a new folder ( not the same as above ) and watch.

CouchPotato is set to look in the download folder and processes all files and renames them and moves them to the new folder.



Jocke great script.
I like to look at the different ways others code and the more I look, the more ways I find to use them.

Give it a try.
J03