[GRLUG] need some script help

[Jonathan Jesse]

Yeah most of them have space in them so would either one work?

Thanks for the quick response guys :)


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Dave Chiodo <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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