Easy way of renaming Arcade roms?

[dudleydes]

@mitu Thank you.

The command below will give a preview of amended gamelist.xml:

xmlstarlet ed -d '//game/desc | //game/image | //game/releasedate | //game/rating  | //game/developer  | //game/publisher | //game/genre  | //game/players' gamelist.xml

To write changes, add --inplace as below:

xmlstarlet ed --inplace -d '//game/desc | //game/image | //game/releasedate | //game/rating  | //game/developer  | //game/publisher | //game/genre  | //game/players' gamelist.xml

[dudleydes]

@MikeLang Try

cd /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/arcade

After this command, run ls to check gamelist.xml is there.

[Clyde]

@MikeLang said in Easy way of renaming Arcade roms?:

Already stuck, running putty, don't know how to change directory from 'pi@retropie:/ $' to:

\RETROPIE\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists\arcade\gamelist

Just an addition to @dudleydes' post: Windows uses backslashes (\) as directory dividers. The official Retropie image is running on Linux, which uses slashes as directory dividers (/).

[MikeLang]

@dudleydes said in Easy way of renaming Arcade roms?:

@mitu Thank you.

The command below will give a preview of amended gamelist.xml:

xmlstarlet ed -d '//game/desc | //game/image | //game/releasedate | //game/rating  | //game/developer  | //game/publisher | //game/genre  | //game/players' gamelist.xml

That's not giving me a full preview of gamelist, I'm getting something like this:

gamelist.xml:1697.16: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
<name>Game name</name>
^
gamelist.xml:1889.17: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
<name>Game name 2</name>
^

The original command 'sed '/<desc>|<image>|<rating>|<releasedate>|<developer>|<publisher>|<genre>|<players>/d' gamelist.xml' is giving a fuller list but has entry run issues as you mentioned.

[mitu]

@MikeLang You'll have to be more specific, maybe you can upload your final gamelist.xml somewhere so we can check.

[MikeLang]

I know why I was getting that weird error now, it was related to having '&' in the name of a game. My example didn't help matters seeing as I didn't type '&'.

The list it generates still doesn't have the games I haven't picked, for example say the arcade rom folder has 300 games and the gamelist.xml file lists 200 roms. There's still 100 games that I have to manually pick in order for them to appear in the gamelist.xml file.

Thanks for all the help everyone I've learned a great deal from all your input.