[mythtv-users] Rename Recorded Files
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jul 9 13:05:20 UTC 2006
On 07/09/2006 08:39 AM, Jeff Hardy wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 10:46 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Jeff Hardy wrote:
>>> I wrote a little perl script called mythfindfile to find and
>>> optionally
>>> rename files on the filesystem to a more human-readable format and
>>> update the DB accordingly. It works for me. If anyone is interested,
>>> it is available at http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/mythtvstuff.
>>> Comments are welcome.
>>>
>> How is this different from mythrename.pl, included in "contrib" for
>> some time.
>>
>
> Well, apparently the old version of mythrename I had when i looked into
> this months ago, didn't actually rename files. It seemed geared toward
> stripping out unwanted strings from the title and subtitle in the
> database. Unless I am completely clueless that is, which is entirely
> possible.
>
That's a good description of mythlink.sh and mythlink.pl (the two
predecessors of mythrename.pl). The mythrename.pl script is new to 0.19+.
>> Any additional features/advantages ?
>>
> Just the searching.
>
>> How does it handle links to an archive directory ?
>>
>
> It doesn't. :)
So, if its functionality were added to mythrename.pl. ;)
Mike
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