Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies category?

[freewayaxe]

I am just looking for a script that will rename the folders of all completed downloads in the "movies" category, replacing any spaces in the folder name with dots. Appreciate if someone could help with this, thanks

[NoTolerance]

You can try this script if you'd like.

FYI, I just have it renaming the folder - it doesn't touch the files. If you'd like this changed, let me know.

[freewayaxe]

Thanks for your help! However, I'm on linux

[NoTolerance]

Oh, okay. That should be relatively simple, too. I'll see if I can knock something out when I'm near a computer again.

[freewayaxe]

Thanks so much chief! I'm so terrible with scripting, your help is greatly appreciated

[sander]

A python script you can run to replace spaces in directory names with dots.
Developed and tested on Linux.

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import os

for path, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('.'):
	for dirname in dirnames:
		if dirname.find(' ') > -1 :
			# Yes, a space in the directory name, so replace it:
			newname = dirname.replace(' ','.')
			print "Rename" , dirname, "   ", newname
			os.rename(dirname, newname)

[freewayaxe]

Thanks! So I have my scripts in /usr/share/sabnzbd/scripts, do I just make a file like spacestodots.py, and paste that in there? Then have that script run on movies?

[sander]

Just run it from the command line. Change the '.' to the correct directory.

If that works, you can procreed to call it from SABnzbd

[freewayaxe]

Okay, I have the script like this at the moment:

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> cat spacestodots.py 
import os

for path, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('/media/stuff/movies/Get\ the\ Gringo\ 720p\ BluRay\ x264\ DTS\ HDChina'):
   for dirname in dirnames:
      if dirname.find(' ') > -1 :
         # Yes, a space in the directory name, so replace it:
         newname = dirname.replace(' ','.')
         print "Rename" , dirname, "   ", newname
         os.rename(dirname, newname)

I run it from command line and get this:

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> python3 spacestodots.py 
  File "spacestodots.py", line 8
    print "Rename" , dirname, "   ", newname
                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

If I run it with python2 or python2.x, there's no errors but it also doesn't do anything (movie directory remains as is with spaces).

[sander]

Well, it's for python 2, not for python 3.

Change the directory to work on to '/media/stuff/', not including the movie name.

[freewayaxe]

Okay I moved one movie into another folder to test the script with. The movie folder is inside /media/stuff/burning/, which is what I changed the path to in the script.

This is what I got:

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> python2 spacestodots.py
Rename Get the Gringo 720p BluRay x264 DTS HDChina     Get.the.Gringo.720p.BluRay.x264.DTS.HDChina
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "spacestodots.py", line 9, in <module>
    os.rename(dirname, newname)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[sander]

OK, bug. Change to:

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import os

# workdir = '/home/sander/kul-rename'
workdir = '/home/sander/Downloads/even twee'         #### CHANGE this line to your movie directory

for path, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(workdir):
	print "path:", path

	for dirname in dirnames:
		if dirname.find(' ') > -1 :
			# Yes, a space in the directory name, so replace it:
			newname = dirname.replace(' ','.')
			fulldirname = path + '/' + dirname
			fullnewname = path + '/' + newname
			print "Rename" , fulldirname, "   ", fullnewname
			os.rename(fulldirname, fullnewname)

That works for me

[freewayaxe]

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> python2 spacestodots.py
path: /media/stuff/burning
Rename /media/stuff/burning/Get the Gringo 720p BluRay x264 DTS HDChina     /media/stuff/burning/Get.the.Gringo.720p.BluRay.x264.DTS.HDChina

Awesome! Thanks a lot mate, I really appreciate your help, I hope anyone else who needs this script can benefit