I use KRename for renaming multiple files.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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I second krename. Works flawlesly for me.
+1 for krename, otherwise if the new filenames are complex and should be calcolated I use python
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 :)
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?
you can try rename: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html
or
rename 's/expression/replacement/' filename
select 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.
Dolphin has that ability built in. If you use it, highlight all of the episodes and press f2. Pretty self explanatory from there.
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
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.
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.