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?

  • Ictinus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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*_\[spa\]//' *

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      1 year 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*[ger] *