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Commands tagged file rename

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zmv '* *' '$f:gs/ /_'
2013-03-23 00:58:52
User: khayyam
Tags: zsh file rename
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replace spaces in filenames with underscores

replace (any number of) space[s] with underscore.

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export l=$1; shift; rename 'my $l=$ENV{'l'}; my $z="0" x $l; s/\d+/substr("$z$&",-$l,$l)/e' "$@"
2013-03-13 15:14:20
User: hgrupht13
Functions: export rename
Tags: sorting file rename
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convert finenames containing a numeric index from differing to fixed index-length; padding required zeroes in front of first number

Use it as bash-script.

The first positional parameter specifies the fixed length of the numerical index.

Further params specify the files to manipulate.

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qmv -fdo
2010-09-27 06:39:37
User: srconstruct
Tags: file rename
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Rename files with vim.

Opens a list of files in a text editor. Using Vim as your default editor allows you to use the power of regex substitution and visual block mode to batch rename files.

Found in the renameutils package

sudo apt-get install renameutils

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for n in * ; do mv $n `echo $n | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`; done
2010-06-25 19:20:04
User: max_allan
Functions: mv tr
Tags: file rename capitalise
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Rename files to be all in CAPITALS

Simple bash/ksh/sh command to rename all files from lower to upper case. If you want to do other stuff you can change the tr command to a sed or awk... and/or change mv to cp....

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for each in *; do file="$each."; name=${file%%.*}; suffix=${file#*.}; mv "$each" "$(echo $name | rot13)${suffix:+.}${suffix%.}"; done
2010-03-20 16:11:12
User: hfs
Functions: mv
Tags: file rename rot13
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Filenames ROT13

This got a bit complicated, because I had to introduce an additional dot at the end that has to be removed again later.

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rename 'y/ /_/' *
2009-06-27 22:20:47
User: signal9
Functions: rename
Tags: file rename
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replace spaces in filenames with underscores

This command will replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory with underscores. There are other commands that do this here, but this one is the easiest and shortest.

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