[GRLUG] need some script help

[Dave Chiodo]

Gotta be wary of filenames with spaces though.

For instance, if files were

Movie1.mp4
Long Movie.mp4

A for-loop on that could easily end up doing:

mv Movie1.mp4 Movie1.avi
mv Long Long
mv Movie.mp4 Movie.avi

Also gotta watch for .mp4 vs .MP4 - windows f/s are not case
sensitive, but *nix are.

Movie.mp4 and Movie.MP4 are two different files on a *nix system and
MOVIE.mp4 is yet a third.

As far as WHY the xbox doesn't work when the file is called mp4 and
does when its avi, its due to MS foolish use of file extensions
instead of contents of the file or something more standard to
determine what the type of data is.

For a really long explanation of the issues, that is written from a
Mac perspective (OSX is *nix), see
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2001/08/metadata/

(Sadly, its one of those spread-across-multiple-pages aticles and I
couldn't find a one-page version of it. Its also quite old, but its
points are still valid, even if they are now forgone lost-causes)

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Michael Glaske <mglaske at gmail.com> wrote:
> This should work..  beware though.. It's untested.. in BASH.
>
> for file in `find . -name \*.mp4`; do mv $file `echo $file | sed
> 's/\(.*\.\)mp4/\1avi/'` ; done
>
> If you want to test it first, replace 'mv $file' with 'echo'.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey GRLUGERS,
>>
>> New to scripting and all that but hoping to get some help out here.  I've
>> been using minidnla on my Ubuntu laptop to stream movies to my xbox and
>> things are working very well.
>>
>> However I notice something... If I grab something off bittorent chances
>> are it is a MP4 or a MKV file and my xbox can't stream it.
>>
>> For some reason if I rename the same file Big Bang Theory.mp4 to Big Bang
>> Theory.avi the file will play on my xbox.  Not quite sure what happens in
>> the rename of the file that makes the magic work but it does.
>>
>> So I'm wondering if there is a script guru that could look at all my files
>> that either named *.mp4 or *.mkv and rename it to whatever it was .avi?
>>
>> Make sense?
>>
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