Batch-Renaming Movies using Regex
- by Nate Mara
So, I've been trying to rename some movie files using regular expressions, but so far I have been only marginally successful. The goal is to parse files like this:
2001.A.Space.Odyssey.1968.720p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-LiNG.mkv
And rename them Like this:
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968).mkv
I created the pattern: ^(.+).(\d{4}).+.(mp4|avi|mkv)$
With the output: \1 (\2).\3
Now, this works perfectly fine when I have movies with one-word titles, but when there is more than one word separated by a period, the regex fails to grab anything.
What am I doing wrong here?
