My Problem, that I've got a folder with many different files like:
xxxxxxxxx.avi yyyyyyy.jpg zzz.txt
And I want to rename them into
001.avi 002.jpg 003.txt
It's not working with thunar rename, because the filenames are not all the same length.
Maybe with rename 's/.*......, but I am kinda stuck...
Thanks for any suggestions
If you are comfortable with a command line solution, you could do something like this, in bash
i=1
for file in *.*; do
printf -v newfile "%03d.%s" $((i++)) ${file##*.}
echo mv -v -- "$file" "$newfile"
done
The echo will prevent it from actually making any changes (it will just output a list of mv commands that it would make) - you can actually make the changes by running the same command without the echo once you are satisfied that it's going to do what you want.
000.avi and the OP wanted 001.avi
– terdon♦
Apr 8 '14 at 16:28
-- to the mv)
– steeldriver
Apr 8 '14 at 16:35
i=1 though, the variable does not seem to be incremented as expected.
– terdon♦
Apr 8 '14 at 16:39
GwenRename is a series renaming tool. It was created as an external tool for GwenView, the image viewer for KDE, but can also be used from Konkueror. As that, the files to be renamed are passed to it as command line parameters, and there is no other way to load files into it.
The main goal is to have a batch renaming tool that's easy and light enough for every day use. If you are looking for a more compound and featured renaming tool, you should have a look at Dominik Seichter's KRename.
pyRenamer is a mass file renamer, written in PyGTK.
Found another rather short solution:
n=0; for f in * ; do mv "$f" "$n.${f/*./}"; n=$((n+1)); done
