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Thanks for the advice :-)

Well this was by far the simplest answer, worked like a charm :-) Thanks

Guys,

I have read through the posts as best I can, just a reminder that x, y & z represent variable number so can't be hard coded. One other thing which I should have mentioned is that OS could...

So I have tried sed:
sed 's/^[^_]* - //'Nothing really happened so I escaped that

Then I tried the perl script rename
rename s/_\.// *.jpgWhich remove the _ and the first letter of the surname...

Thanks for all the replies, I wasn't expecting it to be that complex.

I sort of thought the script might simply search the filename string for the first underscore and delete it plus all the...

I have tried various bits of code via google all of which used sed but I don't know enough to change the code to suit my needs :confused:

so I have about 30k jpg files that I need to rename in one hit. The current filename format is:
x_surname_firstname_y_20141115_OS_(z)
where x, y and z are numbers of various lengths

the new...

it basically lists everything in the source dir followed by everything in the destination dir, ie:

/media/video/original_series
./TEST2/TortillaFlaps.s01e05.mkv
./TEST2/WestOfPesos.s01e08.mkv...

Jim, Thanks for you help.

It nearly works - the new directories are created but only the last mkv file in the last directory is transcoded, for example if I have:
dir1 - file1.mkv & file2.mkv ...

I have a batch of mkv video files I would like to transcode to a more compressed format. After spending a significant amount of time experimenting with various parameters I think I have found the...