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Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies category?
Posted: April 25th, 2012, 3:21 pm
by 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
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 4th, 2012, 1:33 pm
by 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.
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 4th, 2012, 6:17 pm
by freewayaxe
Thanks for your help! However, I'm on linux
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 4th, 2012, 6:28 pm
by 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.
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 4th, 2012, 6:36 pm
by freewayaxe
Thanks so much chief! I'm so terrible with scripting, your help is greatly appreciated
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 5th, 2012, 3:36 am
by 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)
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 6th, 2012, 4:52 pm
by 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?
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 6th, 2012, 9:42 pm
by 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
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 8th, 2012, 4:17 pm
by 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).
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 8th, 2012, 4:40 pm
by 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.
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 8th, 2012, 5:04 pm
by 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
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 8th, 2012, 5:21 pm
by 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
Re: Simple script to replace spaces w/dots for movies catego
Posted: July 8th, 2012, 6:04 pm
by 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