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Nautilus Bulk Renaming - Is It Possible to Delete Everything After The Underscore? (self.linux)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MrGeekman to c/linux
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I recently purchased, ripped, and almost finished transcoding the entire series of Friends. I'm currently in the process of converting subtitles with Subtitle Edit. I'd like to save myself a bit of work by taking the last 13-14 characters off the ends of the file names.

For example, I'd like to take track13[spa] off of the following filename: 03x10 - The One Where Rachel Quits_track13_[spa].sup

Or is this not possible with Nautilus?

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[–] ictinus 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Assuming all but the number is the same in all file names, try this in a folder with a test file first....

rename 's/_track\d*_\[spa\]//' *

[–] MrGeekman 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you! I noodled around with that in a GUI program called GPRename and found a workable solution I just had to modify yours a bit to make it work there. Here's the finished solution, at least when using a graphical program like GPRename: _track\d*_\[eng\] *

[–] zikk_transport2 1 points 2 years ago

Try asking chatgpt to write such bash script. Of you are not good at bash - ask to tell how to execute it too.

[–] oceanus_ursus 1 points 2 years ago

This is something I'd probably do with a shell script. You can do it in a few intermediate stages. I'd start with putting together a script to dump the filenames to a text file and then some sed and awk to process that down to the final names. You could basically write a script to generate a script that you could inspect to see if it was correct before running it.