Automate renaming of video files

Question

I have a lot of files I want to rename and it would take me a long time to do them manually. They are video files and are usually in this format - \"NAME OF SHOW - EPISODE N

Answer 1

for FOO in *; do mv "$FOO" "`echo $FOO | sed 's/\([^-]*\) - \([0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\)\(.*\)/\1 - S0\2E\3\4/g'`" ; done

This works if there are less than 10 seasons.