Can I rename without matching?

[vman]

I have a matching problem that I "think" can be fixed if I first improve the name of the file (produced automatically by my DVR in a format I can not change).

Here is my existing format:

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NBC Nightly News (1970) - 2019-12-12 06 00 00 - 12-13-2019.ts

The date at the end of the filename is accurate (12-13-2019) but the first date is not (2019-12-12).

Filebot uses that first date to do the matching, but since it is the wrong date, filebot matches the wrong episode.

Is there a way to automatically rename this file as follows:

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NBC Nightly News (1970) - 12-13-2019.ts

If I do this manually, Filebot then does it's magic and all is well.

[rednoah]

FileBot does take all dates into consideration, but I suppose if there's a new episode every single day, then things get a bit too ambiguous.

You can use FileBot for generic renaming & pre-processing file names:
viewtopic.php?t=2072


e.g. match the last 12-13-2019 pattern and then re-arrange the numbers to 2019-12-13

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(fn =~ /(\d{2}).(\d{2}).(\d{4})/)[-1][3, 1, 2].join('-')

e.g. as complete generic file format, this should do, get the part before the dash, i.e. the series name, and then add the nicely formatted date:

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{fn.before('-')} - {(fn =~ /(\d{2}).(\d{2}).(\d{4})/)[-1][3, 1, 2].join('-')}

[vman]

Super helpful and worked perfectly with CLI also:

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filebot -rename -non-strict * --format "{fn.before('-')} - {(fn =~ /(\d{2}).(\d{2}).(\d{4})/)[-1][3, 1, 2].join('-')}"

Any thoughts/resources on filtering out the already-renamed files? If I run that cli on files that have already been processed once they go from:

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NBC Nightly News (1970) - 2019-12-13.ts

to

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NBC Nightly News (1970) - .ts

This will become an issue when I automate the script.

[rednoah]

The 06 00 00 bit seems to be quite unique, so we can use --file-filter to only include files that have that one:

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--file-filter "fn =~ /00.00/"

[vman]

TY So much!

[vman]

I just looked at today's recording and the filename is exactly the same as on Friday. As such, I need to add today's date to the filename. Is this possible? {ny} and other "y"s are related to the movie/series data it seems.

[rednoah]

e.g.

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{new Date().format('yyyy-MM-dd')}