On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:59 PM, narendra sisodiya <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:48 PM, narendra sisodiya
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/22/bulk-renaming-made-easy-with-thunar-bulk-renamer/
>> > http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/bulk_renamer
>> >
>>
>> I've had the need for renaming files in bulk pretty often. Above must
>> be a neat tool but this is how I used to get my work done.
>>
>> For example, if I had to rename files ending with ".JPG" to ".jpg",
>>
>> $ for i in *JPG; do j=`basename $i .JPG`; mv "$i" "$j".jpg; done
>>
>> As you suggested, adding date/time stamps are straight forward by this
>> too.
>>
> :)
> I was waiting for this response (I was expecting Shakthi to write response
> ;)  ). command line is great but that need a learning curve. I too use
> command line many times , you cna check my collection :
> http://placements.techfandu.org/index.php?title=Linux/Shell_Scripts#How_to_remove_all_.exe_files
> But I think for a normal user this GUI is very much useful - Linux is great
> for development (geek purpose), In order to put it for common user (like my
> 10th class brother), we must think as common user's point of view also.
>
>
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> >
> I also found some more packages for bulk renaming while I was exploring
Ubuntu repo
1. mrename - A tool for easy and automatic renaming of many files [*universe
*]
2. purrr - This is Purrr, mass file rename tool written in PyGTK [*universe*]

3. pyrenamer - Mass file renamer written in PyGTK [*universe*]


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