Batch renaming series episodes from 1x01* to S01E01* pattern

Question

Bash: How do I batch rename series episodes from 1x01* to S01E01* pattern?

I found this answer, but I am rather lost in how to modify it to my case.

Possible duplicate of Batch renaming files – icarus Dec 05 '16 at 22:24 — icarus, Dec 05 '16 at 22:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 05 '16 at 23:20

2

Bash substrings will do:

for i in ?x??*
do
  mv "$i" "S0${i:0:1}E${i:2:2}${i:4}"
done

edited Dec 05 '16 at 23:20

Vlastimil Burián

answered Dec 05 '16 at 22:25

DepressedDaniel

steve · Answer 2 · 2016-12-06T09:27:44.637

One approach, using the rename command. Drop the -n when happy with proposed renames.

Explanation:

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rename -n -e 's/(\d+)x(\d+)/S0$1E$2/' *
rename(Breaking_Bad_1x01.mkv, Breaking_Bad_S01E01.mkv)
rename(Shameless_3x05.mp4, Shameless_S03E05.mp4)

score -3 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 05 '16 at 22:29

-3

You may do it one by one:

for f in 1x01*; do
    n=`echo $f | sed 's/^1x01/S01E01/'`
    mv $f $n
done

edited Dec 05 '16 at 22:29

Vlastimil Burián

answered Dec 05 '16 at 22:07

strobelight

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This only handles the one episode, not other files named by a similar pattern. – Wildcard Dec 05 '16 at 22:19
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You want to change 1x to S01E, so for f in 1x* ; do echo mv "$f" "${f/1x/S01E}" ; done check that it looks OK, then remove the echo. – icarus Dec 05 '16 at 22:23

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