[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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