Rename many files at once

[chornbe]

How about some scripty goodness?

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $newname = @ARGV[0];
if( !$newname ){
$newname = "file";
}
my $i = 0;
my @names = `ls | grep \.[Jj][Pp].`;

for( @names ){
chomp;
$i++;
my $iter = "0000" . $i;
my $cmd = "mv \"$_\" $newname" . substr( $iter, length($iter)-4, 4) . ".jpg";
print "$cmd\n";
`$cmd`;
}

[robyn1]

To run the Applescript, select all your files and drop them together on the icon FileName_X. Cool script! Hope Apple puts it in Leopard, and makes another ex-Windows person happier.

[ex2bot]

It's strange that multiple rename is not in Finder. If I ever needed to do it, I'd probably make an action with Automator (or use that Applescript). I've attached an example. It literally took me 5 minutes to make and test. And I'm not a programmer. *** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.** Test it first to make sure it does what you think it does. After all, I spent about three minutes testing it.

You can save this as a Finder plug-in. To use it, run it, select the File menu, select "Save As Plug-in". When you want to rename several files, select them in Finder, right click (or control-click with a one-button mouse), select "Automator" from the contextual menu, and select the name you gave it when you saved it as a plug-in. I called mine "Multiple File Rename".

Automator ROX! Also check out:

http://automator.us

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[icemanjc]

R-Name Beats All

[mikeceo]

You can do a lot of renaming tasks with Automator but if you want to be faster and need some more flexibility such as previewing new filenames I would go with an add-on utility such as Renamer or Name Mangler.