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Idea #23471: Rename data files at one time

Written by Impietatis the 26 Jan 10 at 19:40. Related project: Nautilus. Status: New
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You have much files and want to rename they at one time, but you cant because Nautilus does not support this feature and u have rename one by one, clicking by clicking each file, and you getting nervous and going amok.
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Solution #1: New Feature for it
Written by Impietatis the 26 Jan 10 at 19:40.
You choose more than one data file with your mouse (clicking and holding and chose more data files with the frame you get showing) and the you press F2 and chose a Name and he renames all chosed data files like $name.1.mp3, $name.2.mp3, $name.3.mp3...$name.1345.mp3 oder something like that.
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Solution #2: Use specific software
Written by Ssdg the 27 Jan 10 at 20:12.
There is already tools to do that:
Pyrenamer, Easytag (for music files)
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Solution #3: Simply use "rename"
Written by erlendoos the 22 Feb 10 at 20:15.
There is allready a shell command to do this.

rename

I can hear you think: "W00t!!! How can it be that a command like rename actually renames files?" but it is true.

Fill in a regular expression, and it does the job.

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tntricker wrote on the 27 Jan 10 at 03:33
This would be batch processing. It's true that Nautilus doesn't handle this but it's kind of out of the scope of Nautilus. If you have to process many files like this I'd highly recommend you get familiar with the bash command prompt, basic utility programs( like grep, pushd, popd.. etc) and script writing.

btw not using your mouse when your changing filenames will same you alot of time, use your arrow keys and f2.

Akerbos wrote on the 27 Jan 10 at 09:39
This is not exactly a duplicate, but a subset of

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20699/

iKonaK wrote on the 27 Jan 10 at 09:58
Until nautilus is "fixed" you can use thunar for renaming multiple files.

Dazed_75 wrote on the 27 Jan 10 at 18:12
This is re-creating the wheel. Solutions already exist for this occasional need. Don't waste time on it.

tommynz1975 wrote on the 9 Feb 10 at 22:55
in dos I remember I'd just go
rename *.asc *.txt
do we not have such a terminal command. if so just simply add this to the file manager.


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