Repackt - The Packtpub epub file renamer

You can get a free book daily from Packtpub here

The problem is that they name the file with a strange number (most likely an inventory index or similar)

So I created this script to rename the files so that they are easier to find in a folder full of similarly named epubs. It works by zgrep’ing for the title field in the .ocf file

Usage

list

repackt list $STRING - show all files that have $STRING in their name

dry

repackt dry $STRING - dry run show the moves that would take place for all files that have $STRING in their name

epub

repackt epub $STRING - rename all files that have $STRING in their name

Example Usage

repackt epub 978

this will move a file called 978132434345.epub to TheProperTitle.epub and any other files which match the $STRING

list

➜  Backt ./repackt list 978
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 8.6M Feb 20 22:27 97812345678.epub
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 583K Feb 20 22:27 97812345678_code.zip

dry

➜  Backt ./repackt dry 978
mv 97812345678.epub MasteringLinuxShellScripting.epub
mv 97812345678_code.zip MasteringLinuxShellScripting.code.zip

epub

➜  Backt ./repackt epub 978
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 8.6M Feb 20 22:27 97812345678.epub
mv 97812345678.epub MasteringLinuxShellScripting.epub
mv 97812345678_code.zip MasteringLinuxShellScripting.code.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 583K Feb 20 22:27 MasteringLinuxShellScripting.code.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 8.6M Feb 20 22:27 MasteringLinuxShellScripting.epub

Todo

In the future I’d like it to convert pdfs and mobi files too, but for now I only download the epubs as they seem to be the smallest in size most of the time.

Follow

You can follow this project here