Re: [Sheflug] Batch Process Photographs

[Adam Funk <a.funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[16/07/09 14:36] Andy (Beta) wrote:

> In Bash:
> 
> rename dsc holiday *.jpg
> 
> Will change the first instance of 'dsc' found in a file name to
> 'holiday' and will do this to all the files ending with '.jpg' in the
> directory.

Careful!  There are two (at least?) different versions of the rename
command floating around.  The one I'm used to these days takes a Perl
substitution argument:

rename 's/dsc/holiday/' *.jpg
(renames the first "dsc" in each filename)

rename 's/dsc/holiday/g' *.jpg
(renames every "dsc" in each filename)

rename 's/\s+/_/g'  *
(flattens all series of annoying spaces in filenames to underscores)


It also has a useful -n option for a dry run (print what it would have
renamed, then you can try again without -n if you like what you see).

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