GUESSIT(1)

💖 GUESSIT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so guessit is a lil command in the User Commands corner of your manual, and its whole thing is guessing information from video filenames. that's it. that's the job. she looks at a filename and is like "ah yes, i know what this is" 💅

✨ NAME ✨

guessit — guess information from video filenames 🎬🕵️‍♀️

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

guessit [options] file1 [file2...]

like. you give her options, you give her a file (or honestly, several files, she's not scared), and she does her lil detective thing. no cap.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — shows you this help message and then dips. exit stage left. bye 👋
• -v, --verbose — turns on debug output. she's gonna be so chatty, you get to see all the inner workings, lowkey iconic 🔍
• -i INFO, --info=INFO — the desired information type 🫶 and bestie there are so many flavors:
  • filename
  • hash_mpc
  • or literally any hash from python's hashlib module, like hash_md5, hash_sha1, ... (yes, the ... is doing heavy lifting there, there's a lot of them)
  • OR a list of any of the above, comma-separated, because why pick one when you can have them all 🌈
• -t FILETYPE, --type=FILETYPE — the suggested file type you're feeding her. your choices are:
  • movie
  • episode
  • autodetect

pick your fighter ✨

• -a, --advanced — shows advanced information for filename guesses, and it comes out as json output. it's giving structured data, it's giving machine-readable, it's giving slay 📊💜
• -d, --demo — runs a few builtin tests instead of analyzing a file. it's the "let me show you what i can do" move. demo girlie behavior 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manpage was written by Etienne Millon <me@emillon.org> for Debian. we love a credited author, periodt 🫶

and that's the whole vibe, bestie! this page came to you from the guessit manual, dated November 2013 — yeah she's a lil vintage but she ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨ mwah, go guess some filenames 💖