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s34get
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 Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:21 am Post subject: Rename folder according to filename located in the folder |
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Dears,
I'd like to rename all folders in a movie directory using a script or similar. The date should be kept and the name should come from the file located in the folder, "some_nice_movie.mp4" or "another_movie.mkv". So "./rip20210101/Stardust.1994.mkv" should be "./Stardust.1994/Stardust.1994.mkv" after the script ran. Any help appreciated.
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Goverp
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| Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:46 am Post subject: |
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My "doall" script might be able to do this - something like:
| Code: | | doall -i 'mv ./rip*/*.mkv ./$2/$2.mkv' |
I recommend using the interactive -i or pretend -p modes until you are happy it won't do something unexpected.
<edited to include the URL for the script! >
<edited again to remove a spurious ". Note the use of single quotes in the code is mandatory>
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s34get
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| Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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thanks, that will probably help already. Although the only option to keep the timestamp in that case is something like
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timestamp=$(stat -c %y foldername)
mv foldername new_foldername
touch -d "$timestamp" new_foldername
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Goverp
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| Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently (i.e. I've not tested it)
| Code: | cp -al "$oldname" "$newname"
unlink "$oldname" |
will also do the job, once edited for your use case.
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