Questions tagged [rename]
this is a perl tool that can be used to rename several files using Perl expressions. If you will ask about renaming several files, either use the filemanager you are using, ie. Nautilus, Nemo or the command-line tags.
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Changing a folder name that has a space in it [duplicate]
I need to Change a folder name Word Press into wordpress.
It gives an error because I have mistakenly written the folder name in two parts, which is not recognized as one name.
What can I do terminal ...
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rename command fails saying file exists when it doesn't
I needed to change the case of filename extensions and used this command in a directory of 26 WAV files:
rename 's/.WAV/.wav/' *.WAV
It worked successfully.
I then changed to a different directory ...
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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 change name of DVD directory
I had K3b burn some data to a rewrite-able DVD.
My file manager shows it as "K3b data project"
I want to rename it to a sensible name like DVD_Disk.
sudo mv '/media/andy/K3b data project' ...
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Remove characters from file name - between [ and ]
i download videos from YouTube for my hobby. The filenames contain some random characters between the [ and ]. E.g. filename [vbnghztresku].webm.
My partial solution starts as follows:
find /medien -...
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How to rename multiple files and folders recursively that include * and other symbols not valid for filenames/folders? [duplicate]
For somewhat reason, my Ubuntu Mate 20.04 let me include * and other symbols apparently not valid for a filename or folder. But now I need to copy a lot of archives (like 15,000) to another PC. I don'...
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Changing the name of a USB device
I did a search and came up empty so here I am.
First of, I'm new and old to Ubuntu/Linux. What I mean is I've used it on and off for years, but at this point I feel like I know about as much as a ...
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Renaming files with a year prefix from the beginning of the filename to the end
Extreme novice here attempting to figure out how to rename a bunch of files in a directory. I have hundreds of media files that all follow the same syntax for the file name:
year - title of movie.avi
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rename multiple subfolders (not files) to parent directory name
I've searched for a solution for this, but everything I found relates to renaming files in a subfolder. I want to rename only the subfolders in multiple directories to the names of the parent folders ...
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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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After upgrade of ubuntu network interface names changed, why? How to change back?
After an upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 I found all the network interface names changed.
Why? And how can I change them back to their original names without having to edit netplan files to force a name.
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Renaming multiple files by removing a single number (1 & 2) in each file [duplicate]
I have approx 200 files named in the format:
paired_dat_11_R1.fq
paired_dat_12_R2.fq
paired_dat_121_R1.fq
paired_dat_122_R2.fq
paired_dat_851_R1.fq
paired_dat_852_R2.fq
I just would like to rename ...
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Renaming mounted folder gives "Permission denied"
I have 5 different drives in my PC which are located at /home/mnt/FOLDERS and are by default labelled alphanumerically.
Now I want to rename them and I tried using mv, rename, sudo commands, which ...
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gparted label file system greyed out
I bought a new SSD hard drive recently to use as a backup, and when I mount it to my machine it shows up mounted at /media/[USER]/Extreme SSD/ <-- yes, that's a space there.
I hate having spaces ...
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one file paste into multiple folder with folder name
I Have one report file (1.xls) this 1.xls should copy into all name folders
c/desktop/test/ inside the test folder i have this file 1.xls and i have the folders also aaa_001
bbb_002
ccc_003
I need ...
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How can I change the name or icon of an installed application?
I have two MPV media players installed of different versions. One is via apt and another via flatpak. I need them both for different purposes. But they have exactly same name and icon. So, whenever I ...
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Remove characters from multiple file names
I have loads of files with file names that I need to simplify. I need to keep everything before the first _ , and the _R1/R2 bit.
A10_S65_L001_R1_001.fastq
A8_S49_L001_R2_001.fastq
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Can't rename or delete files on my other partitions [duplicate]
I am an absolute beginner, I'vs just installed ubuntu on the partition that I have Windows 10 on (after formatting it), during the installation process I didin't erase the whole disk bc I didn't want ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Chrome cannot rename filename when saving images
Ubuntu 22.04
using Chrome, I select an image, R-click, Save As Image
The dialog pops up with the suggested image name
Previously, I had already copied some text to use as the new image name, however, ...
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how to remove a substring of characters from filenames in a directory?
I know similar questions have been asked before but I couldn't find a thread that addresses the 'position' (1 to 5) to be replaced.
What is the best way to remove a number of characters from file ...
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Shared Access and LG Smart TV 766PA?
The Videos directory contains files 1.mkv 2.mkv and so on. When trying to share them inside the local network on LG 766PA, the file names become very strange, not the ones I did. Instead of 1.mkv, ...
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Ubuntu unicode directory name starting with backslash renaming
How can I rename a folder with the name \316\234aintenance under the Ubuntu terminal?
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Rename files and move to parent directory and delete empty subdirectories
ls */*/*
The output of the above command is shown below:
HP14_107_Ch/10785/outs:
metric_summ.csv
HP15_746_Ad/10746/outs:
metric_summ.csv
HP16_317_TD/10787/outs:
metric_summ.csv
I want to rename ...
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A bash script to rename files from different directories at once
If I have a directory named /all_images, and inside this directory there's a ton of directories, all the directories named as dish_num as shown below. and inside each dish directory, there's one image ...
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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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Overwrite FS properties with the EXIF props
I currently have some files that are working and displaying the correct properties from the FS. But some are showing incorrectly when trying to order by date. As the date is showing as "Unknown&...
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How to rename files: picture.jpg.~1~ to picture_~1~.jpg [duplicate]
I have say 30000 files of this type: picture.jpg.~12~
They are remnants of a backup (mv -v --backup=numbered ...).
I needed to switch the extensions to: picture.~12~.jpg
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Rename some files to their own name + something else
I have a directory like Photo
and I want to change the names of the directories inside it -> to what they are, but without it [www.faraDa...] like the first one that I change by mv command.
but I ...
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Rename files so that it only contain numbers
I have a bunch of files that looks like this:
[Skymoon Raws] Mushoku Tensei - 06 [ViuTV][WEB-DL][1080p][AVC AAC].mp4
[Skymoon Raws] Mushoku Tensei - 07 [ViuTV][WEB-DL][1080p][AVC AAC].mp4
And I want ...
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Rename using both captured groups and other variables
In this question I understood that we can only refer to captured groups in the rename command using single quotes.
Is there a way to use both captured groups and other variables in the same rename ...
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Is there a renaming tool (for Ubuntu 18.04 Mate) which is able to work on folder names as well?
I am rather new to Linux, I am using Ubuntu 18.04 Mate. When I need to do more complex file renaming tasks I prefer to use KRename (the GUI version that got installed with apt-get). But often I'd also ...
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Renaming a file using a name of another file in the same folder
I have a thousand folders containing two files: one of them with a random name (mp4 extension) and the other with a name (srt extension).
I intend to replace the random generated file name by the ...
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Relable Icons in Software Application Dsiplay
When I Click the Software Application Icon the display shows 7 Icons with the label 'LibreOffic...'.
How can I change the lables to clearly show Writer, Draw, Calc, Math, ....
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Remove today's date string from all filenames in folder
I have a folder full of jpegs formatted like this:
0001_20210516_XYZ.jpg
0002_20210516_XYZ.jpg
123_20210516_XYZ.jpg
01_20210516_XYZ.jpg
and I want to rename all files so the date string in the middle ...
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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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Search for file by the name it had before being renamed
I have some hundreds of thousands of files, personal stuff like photos, videos and documents gathered and stored during the years. Most of them are organized by type, dates and topics... But some (...
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Rename file names with a parent directory name
I want to rename my files recursively, ending with *.fna.gz with the parent directory two-step-up i.e. "Aspergillus_neoniger". You can see the subdirectories details in this image
tree ...
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Remove and replace all Slashes from Filenames recursively
I want to rename every File in a folder-subsystem that contains a slash to be replaced with an underscore
Current filenames example:
Hello/there.txt
File/name.jpg
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Hello_there.txt
File_name.jpg
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Change name of folders recursively - Bash
I want to rename all files called Caudate_masks to lower case: caudate_masks.
In my directory I have several folders, one of them called Controls and other one called Patients. Inside each one of them ...
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remove certain special characters from file names
I am having an issue transferring folders to my external hard drive- I dont want to change formatting on the HD.
So there are 100's of files in the folder, and the error preventing me from copying ...
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Rename a character in various filenames inside a subfolder of a folder
I am a noob, I have accomplished various things on the cli, however I haven't been able to rename some files
Let me explain with an example.
I have this:
folder/
subfolder/
fileto_rename....
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Using Rename program to delete last characters before file extension
1.What command do you use to delete the last 'n' characters before an extension?
13354443_Walkinthepark-ASGDFSGDG.mkv to 13354443_Walkinthepark.mkv
How to delete the first 'n' characters before and ...
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Use rename of unknown string length
I have some files
"file 1 [EN MR RE EF SF DS DE].txt"
"file 2 [EN MR].txt"
"file 3 [EN MR RE EF].txt"
Id like to use rename to remove the [ * ] section.
I've tried:
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Mass/Batch renaming text files based on the first line (content) of the text file in Ubuntu 20.10?
I have 2015 files which are .pgn files. This is a form of text file only, opens with Notepad++. I am I want to mass rename these files replacing their name with the first line of the respective file ...
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Using Caja file manager on Ubuntu MATE, and every time i rename a file and push the right arrow key, i get moved back to the first file in the folder?
I'm renaming a lot of files, and anytime I finish typing the name and hit enter and right to go to the next file, I go back to the first file in the folder. Is this a bug?
EDIT: Ubuntu 20.04.1, MATE 1....
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How to rename files keeping only the last N characters
How would I recursively rename
Bluebellgray 19707 Rug P1.jpg
Bluebellgray Amal 1972407 Rug R1.jpg
Bluebellgray Random 1907 Rug R2.jpg
Words Amal 1707 Rug R3.jpg
Whatever 9707 Rug R4.jpg
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P1.jpg
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bash, files, rename files, switch positions
How to rename
sluno-20201027-call-metroua-status.mp4
sluno-20201103-call-deriva.mp4
sluno-20201103-call-metroua-status.mp4
sluno-20201105-call-makrocz.mp4
sluno-20201105-call-metroua-testcall.mp4
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How to add single quotation marks in the rename command to change the file name?
I am renaming a text file from Programmer.txt to Programmer's File.txt using the rename command in the terminal. I tried the following command:
rename 's/Programmer/Programmer's\ File' *.txt
But it ...
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rename folders by removing substring
I have a list of folders video_0001 video_0002 video_0003 ...
How do I rename them all to 0001 0002 0003 ... ? I tried
mv video_{0001..0003} {0001..0003} but it does not work
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Rename bulk files
I need to rename the '*.mp3' songs but I don't know how to change name for each and every song in a directory. Does anyone know how to do it?
I need to rename my .mp3 files like this:
Aaaa.mp3
Aaab....
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