Replace underscores for spaces using CLI

[rpgmaker]

I know there is a function to do the reverse but I want to turn underscores into spaces. I've been playing with several commands trying to accomplish this but I'm ready to give up and ask here

This is the first expression I tried:

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filebot -script fn:replace --action test --def "e=_" "r= " /path/files

But it just removes the underscores, the space in "r= " is completely ignored. I tried "r=\ " escaping it but filebot complains that there isn't anything to escape. Also tried "r=\s" but it just replaced the underscore with 's'. I tried many other ridiculous combinations with no luck. I could work around it using "r=[ ]" and then replacing the brackets but it's ridiculous since there must be a way to do this directly. Any help would be appreciated.

[rednoah]

Looks like name=value pairs are trimmed, so leading/trailing whitespace is automatically removed, making this particular use case somewhat impossible.

This really ugly hack will do though:

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filebot -script fn:replace . --action test --def "e=(.*?)_(.*?)" 'r=$1 $2'

For these kind of simple rename tasks you can probably find specialized tools or shell scripts.

[rpgmaker]

This really ugly hack will do though:

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filebot -script fn:replace . --action test --def "e=(.*?)_(.*?)" 'r=$1 $2'

For these kind of simple rename tasks you can probably find specialized tools or shell scripts.

It's ugly but it works

Which regex "format" does filebot accepts? I ask because while they are all very similar there is a perl regex, php regex, etc.

[rednoah]

Java Regex => https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/a ... ttern.html

You'll be hard pressed to find a case where this actually matters though. Regex is pretty standard.

[Kaffe]

As you're on Linux, just use the command "rename" instead.

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rename 's/_/ /g' name/of/directory/Dragonball_z*

If you stand in the directory where you wish to rename, and you want this to process all files, a simple * will do (no need to print out the path and the start of the filename).

If your structure is something like "$ANIME_DIR/anime_name", then you can just do */* (if you're in the $ANIME_DIR, that is), and it will work through it all. However, I do recommend that you run it with the -n flag first, as it shows what it will do, without actually renaming anything.

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rename -n 's/_/ /g' */*

This was written from the top of my head, so don't just copy paste it. x]

[rpgmaker]

As you're on Linux, just use the command "rename" instead.

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rename 's/_/ /g' name/of/directory/Dragonball_z*

I know but the reason why I'm using filebot for this is because the rename util isn't available on my NAS. I can debian-chroot it but I haven't gotten around to it yet.