Python script: rename.py
I like to have my music, movie, and picture files named a certain way. When I download files from the internet, they usually don’t follow my naming convention. I found myself manually renaming each file to fit my style. This got old realy fast, so I decided to write a program to do it for me.
This program can convert the filename to all lowercase, replace strings in the filename with whatever you want, and trim any number of characters from the front or back of the filename. Here is the usage output:
usage: rename.py [options] file1 … fileN options: -h, –help show this help message and exit -v, –verbose Use verbose output -l, –lowercase Convert the filename to lowercase -fNUM, –trim-front=NUM Trims NUM of characters from the front of the filename -bNUM, –trim-back=NUM Trims NUM of characters from the back of the filename -rOLDVAL NEWVAL, –replace=OLDVAL NEWVAL Replaces OLDVAL with NEWVAL in the filename
Here is a few examples of what this program can do.
]$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 01-BandName_-_SongName-group.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 02-BandName_-_SongName2-group.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 03-BandName_-_SongName3-group.mp3 ]$ rename.py -f3 -r “_-_” “-” -r “-group” “” *.mp3 ]$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r–r– 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 BandName-SongName.mp3 -rw-r–r– 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 BandName-SongName2.mp3 -rw-r–r– 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 BandName-SongName3.mp3 ]$ rename.py –replace=”Band” “” -lv *.mp3 BandName-SongName.mp3 -> name-songname.mp3 BandName-SongName2.mp3 -> name-songname2.mp3 BandName-SongName3.mp3 -> name-songname3.mp3 ]$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r–r– 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 name-songname.mp3 -rw-r–r– 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 name-songname2.mp3 -rw-r–r– 1 matt matt 0 Mar 4 14:03 name-songname3.mp3