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Originally Posted by Manichean
I haven't run Calibre on Linux, but I believe you only need SU privileges when installing a new version.
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Great, just installed 0.8.1. I'll test it and see how it goes.
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Originally Posted by Manichean
Try something like
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(?P<author>[^_]+)(,? et al)? (?P<published>\d{4})? - (?P<title>.+)
That should at least give you the possible fields from all the files except the last two. I don't know what can be done about those without getting all horribly complicated, It'd probably be easier to just accept that you'll have to do a certain part manual work on your metadata. |
The et al group had no effect. This gave me an idea though. Both of the following work, does one or the other seem "safer" to you?
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(?P<author>[^_]+)(,? ?e?t? ?a?l?) (?P<published>\d{4}) - (?P<title>[^_]+)
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(?P<author>[^_]+)(, et al|) (?P<published>\d{4}) - (?P<title>[^_]+)
These both successfully strip out ", et al", while not interfering when ", et al" was not present.
Meanwhile, I understand that some manual work will be necessary, just throwing in the last two filenames so you could see what I was working with. The above expression brings those in as author=Unknown and title=the complete filename, which is as good as I can expect.
Thanks,
--Lee