Trying to hardlink and rename files using CLI

[SuissoNaBisso]

Hi all

Just purchased filebot and using it on Ubuntu.
I have a folder /home/USERNAME/torrents/rtorrent/ultrahd in which all my movies are and need to rename them and hardlink using the format "{home}/Media/{plex}" and so moving the hardlinks to /home/USERNAME/Media/Movies.
Please note some of my movies in rtorrent/ultrahd may be contained within a subfolder as well:

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    e.i 1   rotorrent/ultrahd/Avatar.UHD/Avatar.UHD.mkv
    e.i 2   rtorrent/ultrahd/The.Matrix.UHD.mkv

I tried both commands :

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filebot --action hardlink /home/suissonabisso/torrents/rtorrent/ultrahd --db TheMovieDB --lang fr -non-strict --output /home/suissonabisso/Media/Movies

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filebot --action hardlink /home/suissonabisso/torrents/rtorrent/ultrahd --db TheMovieDB --lang fr -non-strict --format {home}/Media/{plex}

but none of them is working...

EDIT: forgot to mention that the result is just that I get the filebot command line menu...

Is there anyone to help please ?
I was initially using GUI through x2go or noVNC but everytime filebot does not respond while fetching movies with db...so have to deal with the CLI now.

Thanks !

[rednoah]

Looks like you’re missing the -rename switch.

The -r flag might also be useful if you want to process all files recursively contained within the given folder.

You can get started by looking at the docs here:
https://www.filebot.net/cli.html

[SuissoNaBisso]

@rednoah
so do you mean I should use something like this ?

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filebot -rename --action hardlink -r /home/suissonabisso/torrents/rtorrent/ultrahd --db TheMovieDB --lang fr -non-strict --format {home}/Media/{plex}

[SuissoNaBisso]

it worked ! thanks so much

[rednoah]

That should do it.

If you're processing files via SSH remotely, but still want a little bit of user-interaction, then you can add --mode interactive as well.

[rednoah]

Here's how I'd write it:

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filebot -rename -r "$HOME/torrents/rtorrent/ultrahd" -non-strict --db TheMovieDB --lang French --action hardlink --output "$HOME/Media" --format "{plex}"