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I have a directory of songs all of which are from the same singer. I want to rename all the files in the directory as:

SingerName(1)
SingerName(2)
SingerName(3)
...

Just like we could do in Windows by selecting files and pressing F2 or clicking on rename in the right-click menu for the selected files.

But this does not seem to work in Ubuntu 12.04! How can I rename a group of files?

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  • specifically for this case you could use something like n=0; for f in *; do printf -v new "SingerName(%01d$((++n)))"; echo mv -v -- "$f" "$new"; done (remove echo after testing)
    – Zanna
    Sep 26, 2017 at 13:17

3 Answers 3

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Try to install pyRenamer from software center https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/pyrenamer/

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It always been a good practice to do task using Terminal.
Link to your answer : How to Bulk Rename Files in Linux (Terminal or GUI)

OR you can give a shot to any GUI app. You can find many.

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In a word, GPrename.

No rename app works better than it, at least for me. Its got GUI that's simple to use.

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