[mythtv-users] Script to create symlinks from numeric to human readable file names

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Oct 23 17:03:53 EDT 2003


On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:05 pm, Jeff C wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Attached is a script that a friend (Dale Gass) threw together to run
> through your mythtv recordings directory and create another directory with
> 'pretty' file names, that show the date and title and subtitle of the
> shows, so you can easily find recordings you want to transfer to another
> machine or otherwise manipulate.
>
> My TV recordings reside on /tv so you'll have to edit the script to reflect
> your appropriate directory.  I run this from my root cron once a night.  If
> you set a password for your mysqldb you'll need to insert that as well.

I've inserted this into the contrib/ directory -- want to write up a small 
section for the misc part of the docs?

Isaac


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