Comments on: Howto: Linux Rename Multiple Files At a Shell Prompt

By: sheeep

sheeep — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:04:09 +0000

thx!

By: Wonky

Wonky — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:35:15 +0000

what if i have a load of files named differently(all .jpg) and i want to rename them into a sequence caleld for example ( test001.jpg test002.jpg and so on )? cheers

By: pd

pd — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:32:48 +0000

I want to rename files and folder like:
test .txt—–>test.txt
text1 .xls—-> text1.xls
“folder1 ” —->>folder1
“folder2 “—–>>fodler2
Actually there are some files and folders in windows which has blank space at the end of file and folder name.
Basically I want to remove blank space at the end of each file and folder.But there are some different extension files as well.

By: JimmyNY

JimmyNY — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:03:12 +0000

Nobody has ever asked this question online it seems…

Problem: Stupid MAC (which I dont have anymore named files with these characters:
“:”
“?”
etc.. in the file names.. I could not find any file renamer that would rename these files in Windows/DOS..

So I tried FENDORA linux and I can rename the manually one by one but i have hundreds…

HELP!!!!

No RENAME or mv command works.. I trired everything i can find online..

I tried specifing the “:” like this “\:” “\x3a” etc.. and nothing.

does anyone know how to strip these retardted OS-illegal characters out of the names.. in one shot.?

I know the ren command in DOS.. but I have no clue it seems in Linux.
and no i don’t have a mac or access to one..

Thanks ahead of time, for your help.

By: pir

pir — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:34:45 +0000

rename ’s/konstantin/georg/’ konstantin.bcn*

By: konstantin

konstantin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:17:11 +0000

hello does somebody knows how to rename the following??

from:

konstantin.bcn
konstantin.bcn0
konstantin.bcn1
konstantin.bcn2

georg.bcn
georg.bcn0
georg.bcn1
georg.bcn2

thanks a lot in advance!!

konstantin

By: miguel

miguel — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:20:53 +0000

how can I rename in specified directory only ?
filename.extension? -> filename.extension

(I have downloading script, but after pasting filename in windows codepage all extensions are finished with â��?â�� and windows see filename garbled..)

By: miguel

miguel — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:20:21 +0000

how can I rename in specified directory only ?
filename.extension? -> filename.extension

(I have downloading script, but after pasting filename in windows codepage all extensions are finished with “?” and windows see filename garbled..)

By: Natan

Natan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:02:40 +0000

so :

for i in *.txt.gz; do mv $i `echo $i |cut -c1-23,30-55` ; done

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:02:18 +0000

abd now his one :

AAAAAAB0020090617173034173034AAAA21_-_0001329515.txt.gz

into

AAAAAAB0020090617173034AAAA21_-_0001329515.txt.gz

anyone?

By: b0nUx3R

b0nUx3R — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:17:54 +0000

oh yeah,i forgot…

example :
addedit.png;1 filesave.png;1 publish_r.png;1
addusers.png;1 folder_add_f2.png;1 publish_x.png;1
apply_f2.png;1 folder_add.png;1 publish_y.png;1

and want to convert to :
addedit.png filesave.png publish_r.png
addusers.png folder_add_f2.png publish_x.png
apply_f2.png folder_add.png publish_y.png

By: b0nUx3R

b0nUx3R — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:56 +0000

I have a lot of .png file with extension “*.png;1″ but I want to rename all in time to “*.png” how to do that?

Thanks :)

By: newbie

newbie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:41:15 +0000

how can we rename 100 files in folder
1 fooo1.txt
2 fooo2.txt
3 fooo3.txt
….

to :-
1fooo1.txt
1fooo2.txt
1fooo3.txt
…….

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:33:14 +0000

It seems to be a Debian vs. other distros issue. Debian uses prename, perl rename, which it maps to /usr/bin/rename. I found the source for one version of perl rename online at http://tips.webdesign10.com/files/rename.pl.txt and using that, my regex above works as desired.

By: V.Balaviswanathan

V.Balaviswanathan — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:11:16 +0000

Cool one… Thanks a lot… Good job… Keep this good work going :)

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:17:13 +0000

Example file name: 2001DODGE3500546424-10_12_1.JPG
Desired file name: 2001DODGE3500546424-10.jpg

Command: rename "s/(_[0-9]+)+\.JPG/.jpg/" *.JPG

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:05:30 +0000

It should work 2.13 was around for sometime and 2.14 is latest. Can paste your example here..

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:52:30 +0000

My rename doesn’t seem to support regexes. Fedora 10. How can I get this version?
# rename -V
rename (util-linux-ng 2.14.1)

By: Paul Feakins

Paul Feakins — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:37:07 +0000

How about:

rename ’s/-*//’ *.mp3

Hopefully that should remove everything after the first hyphen. It’s a guess though, try it on a small sample first ;)

Paul.

By: Luka

Luka — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:12:56 +0000

Thanks for all the tips. Can you help mi with this specific example? I have files named:

latinum_20080101_0305-200272-93930-2-25.mp3
latinum_20080101_0310-200279-93934-2-25.mp3
latinum_20080101_0315-200671-94112-2-25.mp3

and I want to rename them to get the following:
latinum_20080101_0305.mp3
latinum_20080101_0310.mp3
latinum_20080101_0315.mp3

How can I do that using rename? (I have several hundred of files like that.)