mass renaming of movies in single folder to own folders

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koztya
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Joined: 11 Jun 2013, 10:14

mass renaming of movies in single folder to own folders

Post by koztya »

great tool!
just want to share how I used it for mass-renaming of my movies.
I had all movies in single folder, like:

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dir\movie1 - 2010.avi + dir\movie1 - 2010.nfo
dir\movie2 - 1999.mkv + dir\movie2 - 1999.nfo
and I wanted to rename it to individual folders and use year in brackets to be more compatible with xbmc.
so result needed like:

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dir\movie1 (2010)\movie1 (2010).avi + dir\movie1 (2010)\movie1 (2010).nfo
dir\movie2 (1999)\movie1 (1999).avi + dir\movie2 (1999)\movie2 (1999).nfo
call filebot like this:

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filebot -script fn:replace --action move --def "e=^(.*)\\(.+) - (\d\d\d\d)\.(avi|mkv|mp4|nfo)$" "r=$1\\$2 ($3)\\$2 ($3).$4" \\NAS\movies\
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