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Peter Raeves
Asked: 2015-02-18 09:51:55 +0800 CST

How to rename a movie file by using its internal name attribute?

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I had to recover a bunch of movie files from my external HDD due to filesystem corruption and used photorec to do so. Now all my files have random names like f00000.avi. We are talking about 1000+ movies here, so renaming them manually would be pretty tedious. As I understand, most movie files have their titles stored inside the header as well, so is there a way to quickly rename a bunch of files by replacing the random names by the title of the movie?

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    You can try with mediainfo:

    mediainfo f00000.avi

    To rename all .avi files in the current directory, run:

    for f in *.avi;do title=$(mediainfo $f|grep -i "movie name"|cut -d":" -f2);mv -v "$f" "$title";done

    Install mediainfo using the command: sudo apt-get install mediainfo

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