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. > > > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) > │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org > │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a > └─────────────────────────┘ > > > > 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*] -- Alok Singh Mahor CSE, IIT Delhi www.alokmahor.tk Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
