Questions tagged [batch-rename]
Batch renaming is a form of batch processing used to rename multiple computer files and folders in an automated fashion
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Rename and add a number to all folders in a directory
I have a simulation folder on hpc which contains time directories from 0 to 50 with a step of 0.1 (so 501 folders in total with their names as 0, 0.1, 0.2.. and so forth).
Example output of ls:
0 0.1 ...
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How can you create multiple folders with names that are altered versions of the names of existing files?
I have approximately 100 files with the file names such as: "1999 - Film Title.avi" & "2025 - Another Film Title.avi", etc. I would like each of these files to be moved to an ...
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How to remove/add/replace numbers from multiple filenames?
How to remove and add numbers from multiple filenames?
For example, I want to change the names of filenames Apple1.sh and Banana2.sh to Apple.sh and Banana.sh
I have googled this for a while but I ...
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How to batch rename files (images) recursively based on CSV file
before writing this post, I obviously searched the internet and found several solutions that could perhaps work. But I'm a complete newbie to command line programming or writing.
What I have :
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How to mass change many files names using find and mv
I have a lot of files in many directories that are wrongly spelled.
They are spelled Localisation.json and I want to change them to Localization.json.
I tried this, but it does not work:
find -type f -...
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Rename files from different directories with their paths
I don't know if I'm making sense but, this is roughly what I'm dealing with, and just in case I'll include that some folders have .jpg in the name:
Photos$ tree
.
├── 1
│ ├── 1.jpg
│ │ └── X
│ ...
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Rename files matching expression
I have to rename a lot of jpg files like Portrait_14-9-100390.jpg to Portrait-9-100390.jpg,i.e. remove _nn part.
I did that with a dumb shell script :
sudo rename -f -v 's/_20//' /var/www/prod/110253/...
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What is the command or script to add a part of folder name of that folder's filename?
Suppose I have folder structure like below
01. folder1
|- 1. video1
|- 2. video2
|- 3. video3
02. folder2
|- 1. photo1
|- 2. photo2
03. folder3
|- 1. doc1
|- 2. doc2
Now I want to ...
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Split folder into subfolders with the name of that subfolder dependent on file name prefix
I have a folder with 8857429 files stored within it. Each file follows the same naming structure: "{GROUP}-{UNIX TIMESTAMP}"
I want each group to have its subfolder containing all files that ...
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Removing a variable pattern from the title of my files
As I finally received data from NGS sequencing, for some days I used Ubuntu to analyse them. However, I lack the basics of shell coding, and I feel overwhelmed by this whole new language.
I managed to ...
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How to rename multiple file extensions in ubuntu 20.04 terminal?
I have hundreds of files without extension that I'd like to add a ".py" extension to all of them. As you can see manually renaming them one by one is a time consuming process. I think there ...
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How to rename list of files to a partial same name plus numbered sequence before extension
mv MIPS_236_CONTROLLING_HIGH_BLOOD_PRESSURE_CA_20221701_Denominator_P1_1.csv ../MIPS_236_CONTROLLING_HIGH_BLOOD_PRESSURE_CA_20221701_Denominator_1.csv
mv ...
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How can I rename files by switching the order of strings inside the filenames?
I think the title is not clear, English is not my first language, sorry. But I hope you get the point with an example. I have a lot of files like this :
(Name of Composer) Title of song - Name of ...
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How to remove a specific part of the file name from a lot of files
I have an old backup from a windows pc, but most of the files have a timestamp at the end. All the files need to keep their original name, but without that timestamp.
How do I remove a specific part (...
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Find all files with given extension in subfolders, and add substring corresponding to subfolder
I have numerous txt files, scattered across different folders.
- case1
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- 0.25
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- case1.txt
- 0.35
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_ case1.txt
- 0.30
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_ case1.txt
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how mass rename files with the following syntax
I have about 130 images in the following syntax:
image100.jpeg
image101.jpeg
....
image1.jpeg
image20.jpeg
image21.jpeg
..
image2.jpeg
and so on.
I want rename with the following syntax because I ...
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How to shuffle files and rename sequentially
I have a set of .png images, currently named in sequence from 1 to 1000. How can I take these images and reassign them to a random number between 1 & 1000 so I end up with the same range of ...
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How to find and rename files with different extensions
I have some files inside a folder like this:
DUMAK011.618
DUMAK011.619
DUMAK011.620
I would like to rename them to:
DUMAI011.618
DUMAI011.619
DUMAI011.620
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Install Bulky (Nemo bulk renamer)
I can not figure out how to install the new feature that is coming to Linux Mint 20.2. The bulk renamer Bulky (https://github.com/linuxmint/bulky).
Because it's such a new thing, i can't really find ...
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How to batch rename sequentially prefixed numbers to new sequential prefixes via terminal?
How can I batch rename, using the terminal, a set of files where multiple numbers share the same prefix so that all those prefixes are set to new ones?
For example:
011.foo.txt -> 001.foo.txt
011....
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How to sort files into directories and subdirectories by name?
I'm new to ubuntu and also to the programming world, and I don't really know how to do this!
I have a folder with lots of files named as follows:
000_S_001_mpc_asd.json
000_S_001_mpc_asd.nii
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Swapping one character in filename with another
I have a file that has the name a_b-c-d-e-f.txt. I would like to take that current name and swap the dashes and underscores so that it becomes a-b_c_d_e_f.txt.
My intuition tells me to try rename or ...
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Rename multiple files with same digits after decimal
I have multiple files with names
vort-0.01.txt,
vort-0.02.txt,
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vort-0.1.txt
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vort-0.2.txt
... etc.
I want to rename each files with two decimal points i.e. I want to change the name of vort-0.1....
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Bash Script to rename or remove punctuation (? !) & string in filenames of files, subdirectories and directories recursively in Ubuntu 16.04
I am new to using Bash scripting, but I have discovered a few solutions that use it to either remove or rename the filename for files within directories and sub-directories in Ubuntu 16.04. For ...
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Batch rename of video files after finding its resolution height
Trying my first script, not going smoothly. Maybe someone knows of a program or can help point in the right direction. I want to sequentially find a large archive of video files resolutions - height ...
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How to Bulk / Batch Rename in Terminal? [duplicate]
I Have Question, How to bulk / batch rename in terminal ? i use ubuntu 16.04 64 bit
example
i have 5 file
(GreatSoftware) AVG Anvitirus - 1.exe
(GreatSoftware) Windows Media Payer - 2.exe
(...
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How do you rename files from one incrementing pattern to another?
I have a group of files that are named as follows:
048. banana.mkv
049. apple.mkv
050. mango.mkv
051. pear.mkv
052. grape.mkv
I need to rename those files with the following naming convention
01. ...
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Rename files from their content
I have thousands of txt files with a .pdbqt extension in a directory named 100000cpds_ligand_00001.pdbqt, 100000cpds_ligand_00002.pdbqt, 100000cpds_ligand_*****.pdbqt and would like to rename them ...
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renaming file and deleting from last
what is the "command line" "to remove certain character from the end of a file name . For example, subash.jpg.jpg. I want to remove ".jpg" from last. i have been having problem "renaming the files".
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How to rename the output file with variable name?
I want to run a script 4000 time, every time it produces an output file named min1.gro. Each time it will replace the previous version. I want to name the output with a different name for the 4000 ...
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Rename files of the same name in multiple subdirectories
I have multiple directories with unique identifying names. Within each of these are further identicle subdirectories generated by an automated analysis software. Within one of these subdirectories is ...
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Change duplicated extension of multiple files recursively from the command line
My question is almost the same as those, however, its solution doesn't work my for my case.
I'd like to remove duplicated extension (in my case .zip.zip) and have only one (i.e. .zip).
I tried:
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Specify starting number when renaming multiple files
I would like to rename multiple files with automatic numbering order. I can do this where the numbering starts at 0 (see screenshot) but I would like to specify the starting number. Is there a way to ...
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Replace a folder name using a contained file name
I have a thousand or so folders having random names. Every folder has at least one file with avi, mkv,srt or mp4 extension.
I intend to replace the random generated folder name by the first file name (...
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Rename multiple files at the same time
I have around 180 files with the same structure: 000-aaaaaaaa.txt.
Regular expression for a file name: /^[0-9]{3}\-[a-zA-Z]+$/gi (3 digits + - + letters + .txt).
I would like to cut of the numeral ...
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Bash : rename files (1 per folder) with folder's name
I have a folder with 101 subfolders. Here is a tree with the first ones to visualize the thing:
├── 001 - Implacablement votre
│ └── Implacablement votre - Sapir.epub
├── 002 - Savoir, c'est mourir
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How to save multiple image attachments from Gmail using specific name
I have an email (Gmail) with multiple image attachments that I would like to save to one of my folders. I know you can do "Download all attachments" using Gmail, but I would like to give my images a ...
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Swap parts of filenames
Problem
I have thousands folders, which names are structured like:
firstName_lastName_date
for which I want to swap the two first parts using the underscore _ as a separator in order to end up with:
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Find and replace folder and file names with Windows incompatible characters
My Ubuntu (18.04) drive is synchronised with a Windows drive. Some of my folder and file names in Ubuntu contains characters not allowed in Windows and this causes issues during sync. I want to find ...
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Copy all files from subdirectories and subsubdirectories to main directory with modifying file names by adding prefix of all parent directories
Following these two posts:
Move files to parent directory, prefixing file name with former subdirectory name
recursively add directory name to file name
I would like to do the same but with copying ...
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adjust character order of file names (batch)
I have several files named by date and I am trying to make a batch change in naming
they look like this:
dd-mm-yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy or ddjanyyyy
and I'm trying to standardize everyone like this:
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rename the last number-string [duplicate]
How to rename the last number-string it finds with a zero-padded version and leave the rest of the filename alone?
AAA 2000-01-03 bbb 2001-03-04 page_1.pdf
To:
AAA 2000-01-03 bbb 2001-03-04 ...
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How do I remove special characters from file name with a command?
I have a few files that I want to rename and want to accomplish this in the command line.
I need to remove these characters "¡¿" from the beginning of the file names.
From this:
¡Tú_la_llevas!-2018....
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Finding the image file name and renaming with parent folder names
I have this file structure. I wanted to use the image filename appended with the parent folder names.
Before:
├── ak
│ ├── adak
│ │ ├── Hello\ World456
│ │ ├── cup-printing
│ │ │ └─...
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How to rename multiple files by year to year basis in bash
I have multiple files named as
DOWN_1981_1.31.nc
DOWN_1982_1.31.nc
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DOWN_2010_1.31.nc
I want to rename them to
DOWN_2040_1.31.nc
DOWN_2040_1.31.nc
DOWN_2041_1.31.nc
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DOWN_2069_1.31.nc
How to ...
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How can I rename image file based on colors in the image?
For example:
If I have a 2x2-pixel image.
In the image:
3 pixels are red.
1 pixel is green.
0 pixels are blue.
I want to rename the image to 3_1_0.
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Bulk change file extensions [duplicate]
I have a folder with ~30 files. The are already BitTorrent metafiles that lack a .torrent suffix. I want to change all those files to .torrent files. How would I do that? In windows it was as easy as ...
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Easy way to add a zero to the filename if it need it
With big help from here, I have soon converted all my jpg files to gif (thanks again ALOT)
but when I was looking around at my files I have noticed that some folder I have added a zero to the ...
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/usr/bin/rename: Argument list too long
I'm trying to rename a bunch of files and folders.
I tried this command rename 's/test/test2/' but I got unable to execute /usr/bin/rename: Argument list too long
I searched a lot and tried ...
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Renaming multiple files at once, with the same extension [duplicate]
I'm currently in a situation, where I need to rename a bunch of files, inside different folders, with the same extension (SRT).
Currently, my directory "setup" is like this:
This is a folder (2000)
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