There is a wonderful command-line utility called rename. It can be installed via homebrew: brew install rename.
It has a dry-run option -n, and works with Perl-style regex.
Go to your online graphics folder, and run:
rename -n ‘s/BBB links/Blog Template/g’ */BBB\ links.html
That should do a dry run and list the proposed changes. The, if that is right, you can rerun with the -n option removed.
Rick Gordon
| From: | Bill Kochman <[email protected]> |
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| To: | [email protected] |
| Reply-To: | [email protected] |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:45:06PM GMT+00:00 |
| Subject: | Possible to Use BBEdit to Batch Replace File or Folder Names Using Multi-File Search? |
Hello BBedit team and friends,
I was just wondering if it is possible to use BBEdit to batch change file names or folder names in a folder using BBEdit’s Multi-File Search function.
I have about 370 folders inside my onlline graphics folder, and inside each of those 370 folders, there is a BBEdit text file currently named “- BBB links.html”.
I want to change that file name to “- Blog Template.html” in all of those 370 folders.
Is this possible with BBEdit, or do I need to use another utility?
Thanks in advance.--
Kind Regards,
Bill Kochman
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