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Find all files with colons and replace with underscores; current directory and below (recursive).
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find ./ -name '*:*' -exec rename 's/:/_/g' {} +

crazedsanity · 2014-01-07 18:20:11 10
Adding Prefix to File name
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rename 's/^/PREFIX/g' *

keltroth · 2016-04-19 15:50:07 12
Convert embedded spaces in filenames to "_" (underscore)

This command converts filenames with embedded spaces in the current directory replacing spaces with the underscore ("_") character. Show Sample Output
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```
$ # before
$ ls -1
big world keeps turning
bye bye
fred
hello world
$ ls -1 | grep " " | awk '{printf("mv \"%s\" ",$0); gsub(/ /,"_",$0); printf("%s\n",$0)}' | sh # rename filenames: spaces to "_"
$ # after
$ ls -1
big_world_keeps_turning
bye_bye
fred
hello_world
```
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ls -1 | grep " " | awk '{printf("mv \"%s\" ",$0); gsub(/ /,"_",$0); printf("%s\n",$0)}' | sh # rename filenames: spaces to "_"

mpb · 2009-03-15 18:42:43 18
Change files case, without modify directories, recursively

Change files case, without modify directories, recursively. ... fucking vfat
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find ./ -name '*.JPG' -type f -execdir rename -f 'y/A-Z/a-z/' {} \+

pronoiaque · 2009-03-27 13:49:56 7
convert filenames in current directory to lowercase
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find my_root_dir -depth -exec rename 's/(.*)\/([^\/]*)/$1\/\L$2/' {} \;

evalinux · 2009-10-11 07:09:06 5
Convert spaces in file names to underscores
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rename 'y/ /_/' *

binfalse · 2010-08-31 22:41:41 3
Find all files under a certain directory /home that have a certain suffix at the end of the file name. Show the file and rename them to remove the suffix.
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find /home -print -exec rename -v 's/_2009-09-04.suffix$//' {} \;

Trebacz · 2010-09-05 13:38:48 3
Replace spaces in a filename with hyphens

As long as you have perl based rename. You can check: =$ rename --help Unknown option: help Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames] That's the good one.
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rename 's/ /-/g' *

depesz · 2010-10-23 17:03:54 13
Yet Another Rename (bash function)

Implementation of `rename` for systems on which I don't have access to it. Show Sample Output
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```
> ls 
text1.txt
text2.txt
> rename txt new.txt *txt
> ls
text1.new.txt
text2.new.txt
```
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rename(){ txtToReplace=${1} ; replacementTxt=${2} ; shift 2 ; files=${@} ; for file in $files ; do mv ${file} ${file/${txtToReplace}/${replacementTxt}} ; done ; }

thebillywayne · 2012-10-03 17:03:29 4
Replace underscores with spaces in filenames and dirnames, recursively into subdirs.

Everyone wants to take spaces out of filenames. Forget that. I want to put them back in. We've got tools and filesystems that support spaces, they look better, so I'm going to use them. Because of how find works I find I need to run this multiple times, if it's renaming subdirs. But it can be re-run without issues. I got this version of the command from a comment in this underscore-generating command. http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/760/find-recursively-from-current-directory-down-files-and-directories-whose-names-contain-single-or-multiple-whitespaces-and-replace-each-such-occurrence-with-a-single-underscore. All I did was change the regex. Show Sample Output
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```
File_Name_CD1.flac
File_Name_CD2.flac
File_Name_CD3.flac

Changes into ...

File Name CD1.flac
File Name CD1.flac
File Name CD1.flac
```
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find . -exec rename 's/_/\ /g' {} +

KlfJoat · 2014-05-05 02:47:19 9
Rename many files in directories and subdirectories

This is probably overkill, but I have some issues when the directories have spaces in their names. The find . -type d -print0 | while read -d $'\0' dir; do xxx; done loops over all the subdirectories in this place, ignoring the white spaces (to some extend). cd "$dir"; echo " process $dir"; cd -; goes to the directory and back. It also prints some info to check the progress. find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.ogg.mp3" -exec rename 's/.ogg.mp3/.mp3/' {} \; renames the file within the current directory. The whole should work with directories and file names that include white spaces. Show Sample Output
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```
 process ./Various
~/Music
```
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find . -type d -print0 | while read -d $'\0' dir; do cd "$dir"; echo " process $dir"; find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.ogg.mp3" -exec rename 's/.ogg.mp3/.mp3/' {} \; ; cd -; done

bilbopingouin · 2014-08-25 11:28:43 8
Recursive find and replace file extension / suffix (mass rename files)

Find recursively all files in ~/Notes with the extension '.md' and pipe that via xargs to rename command, which will replace every '.md' to '.txt' in this example (existing files will not be overwritten).
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find ~/Notes -type f -iname '*.md' -print0 | xargs -0 rename --no-overwrite .md .txt {}

Sommerfalke · 2018-08-24 09:41:51 321
Picture Renamer
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exiv2 rename *.jpg

unixmonkey5069 · 2009-08-10 22:11:19 17
Rename all .jpeg and .JPG files to .jpg
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rename 's/\.jpeg/\.jpg/' *.jpeg; rename 's/\.JPG/\.jpg/' *.JPG

unixmonkey14095 · 2010-11-14 11:47:04 4
Batch rename extension of all files in a folder, in the example from .txt to .md
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rename 's/\.txt$/\.md$/i' *

Juev · 2010-12-18 15:27:58 6
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)

easier way to recursively change files to lowercase using rename instead
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find . -depth -print -execdir rename -f 'y/A-Z/a-z/' '{}' \;

rsimpson · 2011-03-25 03:10:27 5
delete file name space

delete file name space the rename is rename perl version
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/\ //g'

lishuai860113 · 2011-10-25 21:46:36 5
Copy/move a bunch of files to dot files and back
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rename s/^/./ *

anarcat · 2011-12-06 20:44:50 5
Rename files in batch
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rename 's/^hospital\.php\?loc=(\d{4})$/hospital_$1/' hospital.php*

zluyuer · 2017-02-13 07:22:56 21
Adds characters at the beginning of the name of a file
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rename 's/.*/[it]$&/' *.pdf

kayowas · 2009-03-27 15:12:02 7
Recursive replace of directory and file names in the current directory.

This is better than doing a "for `find ...`; do ...; done", if any of the returned filenames have a space in them, it gets mangled. This should be able to handle any files. Of course, this only works if you have rename installed on your system, so it's not a very portable command.
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find -name '*oldname*' -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/oldname/newname/'

goodevilgenius · 2009-07-27 00:44:06 5
Title Case Files

Anyone know how to avoid title casing some words, like 'to', 'of', 'that', etc.?
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rename 's/(^|[\s\[\]_-])([a-z])/$1\u$2/g' *

l0b0 · 2010-08-22 11:26:20 3
Title Case Files
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rename 's/\b([a-z])/\u$1/g' *

John_W · 2010-08-22 14:15:59 3
Command to rename multiple file in one go

This command can be used to rename all the files with extension .xls( in this case) to .ods files. It can be used for other files with certain extension.
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find / -name "*.xls" -print0 | xargs -0 rename .xls .ods {}

jagjit · 2011-07-18 12:48:49 5
Adding leading zeros to a filename (1.jpg -> 001.jpg)

Not as elegant as the zmv version.
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rename.ul "" 00 ?.jpg; rename "" 0 ??.jpg;

jameskirk · 2011-08-26 12:04:14 3
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