Terminal rename files regex

But, if badly formed filename sneaks in, a regex can give you more options for a recovery. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Like always, make sure to test on a copy before. Improve this answer. Yes they are. Assuming, as the in example, that all strings are formatted the same way. This works, I was able to embedd this into my Hazel. Thank you. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Active 1 year, 1 month ago. Viewed 95k times. I have a set of files named like: Friends - 6x03 - Tow Ross' Denial. Thor 41k 10 10 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I have shared my solution in an another post: stackoverflow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Thor Thor 41k 10 10 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. See stackoverflow. Really cool lil diddy. How does it work? Smar 6, 2 2 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 46 46 bronze badges. Jonathan Komar Jonathan Komar 2, 3 3 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges. For me, this is the best answer - oneliner with tools available out of the box — Koikos.

GNU xargs has the -d argument, but for those implementations that do not i. FreeBSD which I was using , this would work across most environments: find.

Not elegant, perhaps. Xargs supports the 0-byte and so does find. Another improvement would be to pre-filter the results from the find through grep to minimize the no-op renames: find. Show 2 more comments.

I would do a shell script for that:! Creak Creak 3, 2 2 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. I like it because it does not use anything special. Matteo: You could use a regex like: RR. Thank you Nic. But when I use the prefix code I have the prefix added both at the beginning and at the end of the file name. This could fit my need perfectly!!! I have a filename pattern like. I love this tool! As I read in comments that RR does not pay attention to Upper vs.

Lower case. I need this option to replace e. Hmm, I am not a programmer. Hi Peter! I hope to have some time soon to add that option and others.