Fix season/episode named files to be simple

fix-season-names

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import re
import os.path

for path in sys.argv[1:]:
    name = os.path.basename(path)
    match = re.search(r's([0-9]+).?e([0-9]+)', name, re.I)

    if match:
        dir = os.path.dirname(path)
        season = int(match[1])
        episode = int(match[2])
        ext = os.path.splitext(name)
        renamed = os.path.join(dir, "S%02dE%02d" % (season, episode) + ext[1])

        if not os.path.exists(renamed):
            os.rename(path, renamed)

HOWTO.md

Download the fix-season-names file and place it into /usr/local/bin then anytime you download a file and wish to rename it to a simpler name, run fix-season-names <name of file> on the command line and it will rename the files to a simple name like "S02E03.mkv" or similar.

If you have a lot of files, you can run it like this:

fix-season-names *.mkv *.mp4

If you have files in nested directories you can run it like this:

find -name "*.mkv" | xargs -n 1 fix-season-names

Enjoy!