How to Rename Files in Linux

There’s not much trickery to renaming files in Linux, but if you want to batch-rename files and folders or want to learn how to rename things from the command line, it can get a little more intricate.

Here we’ll show you several methods of renaming and batch-renaming files in Linux. See below for what those things are, along with their timestamps so you can click right through.

1:06 Rename files with ‘mv’ command
2:43 Use the ‘rename’ command
5:22 Metamorphose 2 (Mass renaming tool)
6:46 Extra method?

2 Ways to Batch Rename Files in OS X
(using Regular Expressions)
https://www.maketecheasier.com/2-ways...

Forked code from GitHub
https://github.com/SteveRyherd/pyRenamer

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