A renaming tool that uses regular expressions to mass rename specified files. Inspired by the rename perl script that comes with Debian and Ubuntu. It is named ae-rename to avoid a name collision with one of the many other rename tools out there. You could change its name to whatever you like if you install it yourself, however.
This particular command line renaming tool has the following features:
0.1:
- Uses regular expressions to match and replace substrings of filenames
--verboseor-vto print how files get renamed as they get renamed--pretendor-pto print how files will be renamed, but not actually rename them- Will not accidentally overwrite another input file. If one specified file might overwrite another specified file, it will be renamed to a temporary name in order to move the file it will replace out of the way first. Note that non-input files may still get overwritten.
- The ability to specify such a temporary filename's suffix
To use it, call it with something like:
$ ae-rename '\.pdf' '\0.bak' *.pdf
The first argument should be a regular expression to match within each filename passed to the command. The second argument is the pattern to replace the matched expression with. The rest of the arguments are the files to rename.
Run:
$ ae-rename --help
for all options.
ae-rename is written in Ruby but has no other dependencies. If you
want to run the specs however, you need RSpec and mkdtemp. Rake
would make running the specs easier as well.
To get them with rubygems:
$ gem install rspec mkdtemp
To run the specs, just do:
$ rake spec
from the ae-rename project directory.
No gem or anything yet, so download an archive of the package from github or run:
$ git clone git://github.com/aetherknight/ae-rename.git
to download the git repository. While in the project directory, copy
the command from bin/ae-rename to some place in your path, such as
/usr/local/bin, or ~/bin (if you have added it to your path).
ae-rename is licensed under an MIT-style license. See LICENSE for
details.