FileBot

Hey Noah!

It's been a while since I've posted on your forums, and I must say I'm loving the new change, especially the new updates to FileBot!! Recently I've decided to give full reins to FileBot, and start with the CLI, however I'm having a slight issue... Before I was used to dragging in files and manually excluding ones I don't want (.nfo, .srt .etc) however with the CLI it will just mass move everything it matches to...

Now I read up on a forum post somewhere that you linked to a file I just had to edit with;
However I don't seem to be getting it right...

All I want is to be able to ONLY move video files (.mp4, .avi, .mkv) etc and leave behind the subtitles, nfo's, etc.

My CLI currently is;
This basically renames files in the specified folder, switches to IMDB for its matching, then a bit of tricks you taught me to get it to use the genre as a folder name, finally skips all conflicts. Does a great job, except for the manual processing afterwards.

I'm hoping you'll have an easy enough fix for me to implement.

All of the best, and long live FileBot!!

1.
You could do that with a Groovy script one-liner. So you would just do filebot -script and then the rest is in your groovy script. So you have to "port" your command-line to Groovy syntax.

2.
On Unix you can easily use find | xargs to run your filebot command on a specific set of files.

rednoah wrote:1.
You could do that with a Groovy script one-liner. So you would just do filebot -script and then the rest is in your groovy script. So you have to "port" your command-line to Groovy syntax.

2.
On Unix you can easily use find | xargs to run your filebot command on a specific set of files.

Hey Noah!

I'm nowhere near as a code lord such as yourself! So I honestly would not know where to start. Isn't there a line I can quickly call from a .groovy script that you're aware of, like the one I mentioned above? Everything works perfectly, I just want it to ignore all non-media files. Any references you can point me to in that case so I can try figure it out on my own?

Thanks in advance!

Windows or Linux? Method 1 or 2?

Here's Method 1 since it works for both.

Method 1:
Create new .groovy file, and paste: Run script with filebot:

rednoah wrote:Windows or Linux? Method 1 or 2?

Here's Method 1 since it works for both.

Method 1:
Create new .groovy file, and paste:

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rename(file: args.getFiles{ it.isVideo() }, db:'IMDb', format: '''H:/Movies/{imdb.genres.take(1).join(' ')}/{n.replaceAll(':', ' -')} ({y})''')

Run script with filebot:

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filebot -script myscript.groovy /path/to/input

Thank you Noah! This is exactly what I had wanted to achieve! I was almost there, haha, but with your help it now works 100% as expected, still have to manually move the bulk renamed movies into the actual movies folders but that is far better than having a repeat of when I had Sickbeard try to automate things and remove ALL my content!! Loving the new Filebot version and interface by the way, I hope FileBot endures on forever, and as usual I am spreading the word and hopefully more donations do roll in so you can continue doing your awesome work!