#MASS RENAME UBUNTU INSTALL#
It can optionally alter the contents of files too (hence the need for -rename in all the above examples).ĭisclaimer: I am not affiliated with repren or it's development in any way, I just find it an invaluable time-saving tool. Install renameutils and use qmv with your favorite text editor. This is just scratching the surface of what repren is capable of though. On many Linux distributions, the rename command is not available by default. To do this on the command-line, you'd need to use single quotes I think (correct me if I'm wrong): repren -rename -from 'figure ()' -to 'Figure \1' -dry-run path/to/directory_or_files_here
The \1 syntax inserts the contents of the first (bracketed) group. Consider this pattern file: # This is a comment Repren also supports pattern files, allowing you to do multiple replacements in 1 go: repren -rename -patterns=path/to/patternfileĪ pattern file looks like this: regex_1replacement_1įinally, it supports regular expression groups. It is very powerful, intuitive, and easy to use, and allows you to insert, overwrite, remove, and number files. Bulk Rename is a graphical interface for renaming any type of file. If you require to rename multiple folders into a sequence, the file explorer in Ubuntu can help you greatly. It does a dry run though to show you what it will do without actually doing it - remove the -dry-run bit once you're sure that it will do what you intend. You can rename large collections of photos at once using a batch renaming program, which saves you the effort of renaming them individually. The above example deletes the first 3 digits in all filenames if they are at the beginning thereof for all files recursively in the current directory. This allows access to each file name as a variable that can be manipulated without having to worry about additional cost / potential security issues of spawning a separate sh -c process using find's -exec option. You can do just a single regular expression pattern like so: repren -rename -from "^" -to "" -dry-run. Another approach is to use a while read loop over find output. While it isn't installed by default, it does support regular expression-based file renaming. Open your Ubuntu command line, the Terminal, either through the Application Launcher search or the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut.
In this method, we will be making use of the Ubuntu mv command, in a for loop, in order to rename all files/folders in a directory such that all the spaces are removed. Since I don't see it mentioned here yet, you can use repren. Method 1: Through the mv command in ‘for’ loop.