Stuck at square one on trying to use scripts

[balewis5]

So, this is my first go around trying to do any type of scripting or automating so sorry about the basic and low level questions. After some work, I finally figured out how to get groovy installed with java_home defined (just to show you where I am in my knowledge of this stuff).

I guess that is about as far as I have gotten. I wanted to run the simple rename script i found here

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filebot -script fn:renall "D:\Torrents" -non-strict

However, when I try to run that I keep getting this error/log message in groovy

groovy> filebot -script fn:renall "D:\Torrents" -non-strict

1 compilation error:

expecting EOF, found 'fn' at line: 1, column: 17

I'm not really sure what to do or what I'm doing wrong. My ultimate goal isn't much here either. Eventually I would like for filebot to run at a predetermined time (let's say 3 AM), rename the files in my torrents folder and MAYBE after I get that sorted out move them to the proper folder.

Let me know if you need any other information, or if there is a section in the FAQ I missed or something that can help me out.

Thanks for your help

[rednoah]

This is a 1-line shell script, not a Groovy script:

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filebot -script fn:renall ...

Also, you don't need Groovy, and you certainly don't need to start the Groovy console. FileBot executes Groovy scripts by itself just fine.

[balewis5]

Thanks for the tip. I still am not get any good results though. When I go into cmd prompt and run the script (from the D drive in my case) it says Done?(???) and doesn't really do anything. Am I right in assuming I Need to run this from cmd prompt, or is there some file bot menu action I can't find to run it through there.

[rednoah]

1.
Learn some command-line basics, then everything will make sense.

2.
Check that there are any files to be processed, then check permissions.