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I have a directory full of images:



image0001.png
image0002.png
image0003.png
...


And I would like a one-liner to rename them to (say).



0001.png
0002.png
0003.png
...


How do I do this?










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    This is one of the top Unix command line FAQs, and I can't find it on this site already, so should we make this Community Wiki?

    – Gilles
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    I don't see why. It's a specific question with a verifiable answer.

    – Internet man
    Aug 24 '10 at 0:45






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    If you're running X it doesn't get much easier than thunar -B *.png for thunar's bulk-rename gui tool.

    – dotjoe
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  • @dotjoe Thanks, Thunar is interesting indeed.

    – Volker Siegel
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image0001.png
image0002.png
image0003.png
...


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0001.png
0002.png
0003.png
...


How do I do this?










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    This is one of the top Unix command line FAQs, and I can't find it on this site already, so should we make this Community Wiki?

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    Aug 24 '10 at 0:08






  • 5





    I don't see why. It's a specific question with a verifiable answer.

    – Internet man
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    If you're running X it doesn't get much easier than thunar -B *.png for thunar's bulk-rename gui tool.

    – dotjoe
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    – Volker Siegel
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I have a directory full of images:



image0001.png
image0002.png
image0003.png
...


And I would like a one-liner to rename them to (say).



0001.png
0002.png
0003.png
...


How do I do this?










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I have a directory full of images:



image0001.png
image0002.png
image0003.png
...


And I would like a one-liner to rename them to (say).



0001.png
0002.png
0003.png
...


How do I do this?







shell bash rename






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    This is one of the top Unix command line FAQs, and I can't find it on this site already, so should we make this Community Wiki?

    – Gilles
    Aug 24 '10 at 0:08






  • 5





    I don't see why. It's a specific question with a verifiable answer.

    – Internet man
    Aug 24 '10 at 0:45






  • 3





    If you're running X it doesn't get much easier than thunar -B *.png for thunar's bulk-rename gui tool.

    – dotjoe
    Aug 25 '10 at 21:26












  • @dotjoe Thanks, Thunar is interesting indeed.

    – Volker Siegel
    Oct 9 '14 at 3:20












  • 8





    This is one of the top Unix command line FAQs, and I can't find it on this site already, so should we make this Community Wiki?

    – Gilles
    Aug 24 '10 at 0:08






  • 5





    I don't see why. It's a specific question with a verifiable answer.

    – Internet man
    Aug 24 '10 at 0:45






  • 3





    If you're running X it doesn't get much easier than thunar -B *.png for thunar's bulk-rename gui tool.

    – dotjoe
    Aug 25 '10 at 21:26












  • @dotjoe Thanks, Thunar is interesting indeed.

    – Volker Siegel
    Oct 9 '14 at 3:20







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This is one of the top Unix command line FAQs, and I can't find it on this site already, so should we make this Community Wiki?

– Gilles
Aug 24 '10 at 0:08





This is one of the top Unix command line FAQs, and I can't find it on this site already, so should we make this Community Wiki?

– Gilles
Aug 24 '10 at 0:08




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I don't see why. It's a specific question with a verifiable answer.

– Internet man
Aug 24 '10 at 0:45





I don't see why. It's a specific question with a verifiable answer.

– Internet man
Aug 24 '10 at 0:45




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If you're running X it doesn't get much easier than thunar -B *.png for thunar's bulk-rename gui tool.

– dotjoe
Aug 25 '10 at 21:26






If you're running X it doesn't get much easier than thunar -B *.png for thunar's bulk-rename gui tool.

– dotjoe
Aug 25 '10 at 21:26














@dotjoe Thanks, Thunar is interesting indeed.

– Volker Siegel
Oct 9 '14 at 3:20





@dotjoe Thanks, Thunar is interesting indeed.

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If you are using Bash or other POSIX-compatible shell:



for f in *.png; do
mv -- "$f" "$f#image"
done





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    This is one of the parameter substitution methods shown in Mendel Coopers Advanced Bash-scripting guide tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

    – W_Whalley
    Aug 25 '10 at 14:15






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    @W_Whalley I strongly recommend avoiding that guide, in favor of the Wooledge Bash Guide.

    – Wildcard
    Nov 27 '16 at 17:55











  • @Wildcard: what are your reasons for recommending to avoid the ABS guide?

    – Christian Severin
    Oct 11 '17 at 11:27











  • @ChristianSeverin promotion of bad practices and outright broken code. Check links on my profile page.

    – Wildcard
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  • If you don't know how to adapt this example for different file patterns, you might want to have a look at the Parameter Expansion Section of the guide mentioned above.

    – lex82
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On Debian and derivatives, Perl's rename works similarly to sed like this:



 rename -v 's/image//' *.png


There's also the rename from util-linux that works like this, instead:



 rename image '' *.png





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    you really should explain that this is a perl programm that might have to be installed and that it takes regular expressions as the argument.

    – user601
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  • Ah, I was not aware of that. I'll give credit to the canonical answer, when I identify it :)

    – Internet man
    Aug 24 '10 at 0:33






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    This rename program came from a Perl examples distribution. Debian and Ubuntu ship it as /usr/bin/rename. Other Unix variants may not provide it, or may provide a completely different /usr/bin/rename.

    – Gilles
    Aug 24 '10 at 7:17






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    Some versions of rename take a from to replacement pattern: rename [options] <expression> <replacement> <file>...

    – melds
    Dec 29 '15 at 18:42







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    If you are using a Debian based system then sudo apt-get install rename, then you can use the rename command. It is sed for filenames.

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zmv



The zsh shell has a powerful batch rename command called zmv.



First you need to enable the zmv command as follows (this can go into your ~/.zshrc).



autoload zmv


The basic syntax is zmv PATTERN REPLACEMENT. The pattern is a shell glob expression. Parts of the pattern can be surrounded by parentheses. The replacement text can contain $1, $2, etc. to refer to the Nth parenthesised group in the pattern. For example:



zmv 'image(*.png)' '$1'


You can also ask zsh to automatically define $1, $2, etc. to match the wildcard characters in the pattern:



zmv -w 'image*.png' '$1.png'





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    sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yet another reason i should be learning zsh.

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    @ixtmixilix what's to learn? Just start using it and perhaps add prezto (github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) for some extra awesomeness.

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  • Really cool, as pointed in zmv's man this can be further simplified by adding alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' to: mmv *.c.orig orig/*.c

    – Bretsko
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  • Enabling zmv prezto requires uncommenting the line in your ~/.zpreztorc following # Set the Zsh functions to load (man zshcontrib). giving zstyle ':prezto:load' zfunction 'zargs' 'zmv'

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I normally use the nice and simple mmv (man page) utility for this usecase:



$ mmv "image*.png" "#1.png"


will perform your task.



The #1 in the target pattern will be substituted with whatever matches the wildcard in the source pattern. This also works for several wildcards and can be used for example to change the order of parts of filenames. You can also easily do more complicated things like converting lower case to upper case letters.



Make sure to protect the patterns from the shell by quoting.






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  • Thanks for pointing out this utility. I found it in Debian, Ubuntu and Cygwin repositories. I had trouble with the man page, but found some web pages and this Stack Overflow question that helped explain how you were using it. stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename

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  • Thanks, I added some more information to the answer to make it clearer.

    – Marcel Stimberg
    Aug 25 '10 at 19:28






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    Can't upvote it enough! It's so simple and friendly. Available for OS X in homebrew.

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POSIX sh for loop



Uses sed to rename



for i in image*jpg
do
mv -v "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
done





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    I like Perl so:



    perl -nlE '$old=$_; s/image//; qx(mv $old $_)'


    You can also use the same pattern for other tasks like copying the files to another directory:



    perl -nlE '$old=$_; s(image)(/path/to/new/dir/); qx(mv $old $_)'





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      Or (safer!): rename($old,$_)

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    qmv



    The command qmv from renameutils opens an editor showing a list of filenames with two colums, separated by a tab. Each row shows one of the filenames, the same in both columns. The right column is representing the new names of the files.

    To make changes, edit the names on the right side. In this example, :%s/... or visual block mode are helpful.



    Filenames in your editor



    $ qmv *.png


    In editor:



    image0001.png image0001.png
    image0002.png image0002.png
    image0003.png image0003.png
    ~
    ~
    ~
    ~
    "/tmp/user/1000/qmvxWyVMs" 3L, 93C


    Edit names in right column:

    (Removing the image prefix from all lines using visual block mode)



    image0001.png 0001.png
    image0002.png 0002.png
    image0003.png 0003.png
    ~
    ~
    ~
    ~
    :wq


    Log of renaming:



    image0001.png -> 0001.png
    image0002.png -> 0002.png
    image0003.png -> 0003.png



    (e.g. Ubuntu: apt-get install renameutils)






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      recursive



      easy recurse selecting image*png files, and assumes no need to deal with newline in file names



      find . -name "image*.png" | while read f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done


      Safe, can deal with spaces, new lines, backslashes and anything else:



      find . -name "image*.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do 
      mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )";
      done





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        POSIX sh using a while loop



        Reading names from find command.



        find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'image*png' | while IFS= read -r f; do
        mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
        done


        Reading names from a file



        while IFS= read -r f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f"|sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done < flist





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          Using shell brace expansion:



          for N in 0001..1000; do mv "image,$N.png"; done





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            For Windows and linux, this Perl script will do; in this case:



            $ rnm -l 's/^image//' '*.png'


            The script could run recursively under directories and even prepending a count to all of them:



            $ rnm -r 's/^/$counter./' '/.png$/'


            UTF-8 chars are also correctly treated, both in Windows and linux.






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              You can use this tool: rnm (web page)



              For your case the command would be:



              rnm -rs '/^image//' *.png


              You can find more examples/docs here.






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                Try brename (https://github.com/shenwei356/brename), a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression (supporting Windows, Linux and OS X) .



                @patrickDurusau said:




                Linux has a variety of batch file renaming options but I didn’t see any short-comings in brename that jumped out at me.




                Features:




                • Cross-platform. Supporting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


                • Safe. By checking potential conflicts and errors.


                • File filtering. Supporting including and excluding files via regular expression.
                  No need to run commands like find ./ -name "*.html" -exec CMD.


                • Renaming submatch with corresponding value via key-value file.


                • Renaming via ascending integer.


                • Recursively renaming both files and directories.


                • Supporting dry run.


                • Colorful output.

                Command:



                $ brename -f .png -p image
                [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                [INFO] 3 path(s) to be renamed
                [INFO] renamed: 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                [INFO] renamed: 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                [INFO] renamed: 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                [INFO] 3 path(s) renamed





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                  ls *png | while read -r f; do f2="`echo $f | sed -e's/image//'`"; mv $f $f2; done






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                  • Something's not right: "mv: missing destination file operand after 'image0001.png'"

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                    There are many problems with your code. Parsing the output of ls is just calling for trouble. read should be read -r. all variable substitutions should be within double quotes.

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                  • You could write this more effectively as for f in *png; do f2="$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/image//')"; mv "$f" "$f2"; done. Parsing ls is neither necessary nor a good idea.

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                  If you are using Bash or other POSIX-compatible shell:



                  for f in *.png; do
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                    This is one of the parameter substitution methods shown in Mendel Coopers Advanced Bash-scripting guide tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 14:15






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                    @W_Whalley I strongly recommend avoiding that guide, in favor of the Wooledge Bash Guide.

                    – Wildcard
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                  • @Wildcard: what are your reasons for recommending to avoid the ABS guide?

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                  • @ChristianSeverin promotion of bad practices and outright broken code. Check links on my profile page.

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                  • If you don't know how to adapt this example for different file patterns, you might want to have a look at the Parameter Expansion Section of the guide mentioned above.

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                  If you are using Bash or other POSIX-compatible shell:



                  for f in *.png; do
                  mv -- "$f" "$f#image"
                  done





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                    This is one of the parameter substitution methods shown in Mendel Coopers Advanced Bash-scripting guide tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 14:15






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                    @W_Whalley I strongly recommend avoiding that guide, in favor of the Wooledge Bash Guide.

                    – Wildcard
                    Nov 27 '16 at 17:55











                  • @Wildcard: what are your reasons for recommending to avoid the ABS guide?

                    – Christian Severin
                    Oct 11 '17 at 11:27











                  • @ChristianSeverin promotion of bad practices and outright broken code. Check links on my profile page.

                    – Wildcard
                    Oct 11 '17 at 16:20











                  • If you don't know how to adapt this example for different file patterns, you might want to have a look at the Parameter Expansion Section of the guide mentioned above.

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                  for f in *.png; do
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                  done





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                  If you are using Bash or other POSIX-compatible shell:



                  for f in *.png; do
                  mv -- "$f" "$f#image"
                  done






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                    This is one of the parameter substitution methods shown in Mendel Coopers Advanced Bash-scripting guide tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 14:15






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                    @W_Whalley I strongly recommend avoiding that guide, in favor of the Wooledge Bash Guide.

                    – Wildcard
                    Nov 27 '16 at 17:55











                  • @Wildcard: what are your reasons for recommending to avoid the ABS guide?

                    – Christian Severin
                    Oct 11 '17 at 11:27











                  • @ChristianSeverin promotion of bad practices and outright broken code. Check links on my profile page.

                    – Wildcard
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                  • If you don't know how to adapt this example for different file patterns, you might want to have a look at the Parameter Expansion Section of the guide mentioned above.

                    – lex82
                    Dec 28 '18 at 21:50












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                    This is one of the parameter substitution methods shown in Mendel Coopers Advanced Bash-scripting guide tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 14:15






                  • 1





                    @W_Whalley I strongly recommend avoiding that guide, in favor of the Wooledge Bash Guide.

                    – Wildcard
                    Nov 27 '16 at 17:55











                  • @Wildcard: what are your reasons for recommending to avoid the ABS guide?

                    – Christian Severin
                    Oct 11 '17 at 11:27











                  • @ChristianSeverin promotion of bad practices and outright broken code. Check links on my profile page.

                    – Wildcard
                    Oct 11 '17 at 16:20











                  • If you don't know how to adapt this example for different file patterns, you might want to have a look at the Parameter Expansion Section of the guide mentioned above.

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                  This is one of the parameter substitution methods shown in Mendel Coopers Advanced Bash-scripting guide tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

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                  Aug 25 '10 at 14:15





                  This is one of the parameter substitution methods shown in Mendel Coopers Advanced Bash-scripting guide tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

                  – W_Whalley
                  Aug 25 '10 at 14:15




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                  @W_Whalley I strongly recommend avoiding that guide, in favor of the Wooledge Bash Guide.

                  – Wildcard
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                  @W_Whalley I strongly recommend avoiding that guide, in favor of the Wooledge Bash Guide.

                  – Wildcard
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                  @Wildcard: what are your reasons for recommending to avoid the ABS guide?

                  – Christian Severin
                  Oct 11 '17 at 11:27





                  @Wildcard: what are your reasons for recommending to avoid the ABS guide?

                  – Christian Severin
                  Oct 11 '17 at 11:27













                  @ChristianSeverin promotion of bad practices and outright broken code. Check links on my profile page.

                  – Wildcard
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                  @ChristianSeverin promotion of bad practices and outright broken code. Check links on my profile page.

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                  If you don't know how to adapt this example for different file patterns, you might want to have a look at the Parameter Expansion Section of the guide mentioned above.

                  – lex82
                  Dec 28 '18 at 21:50





                  If you don't know how to adapt this example for different file patterns, you might want to have a look at the Parameter Expansion Section of the guide mentioned above.

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                  On Debian and derivatives, Perl's rename works similarly to sed like this:



                   rename -v 's/image//' *.png


                  There's also the rename from util-linux that works like this, instead:



                   rename image '' *.png





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                    you really should explain that this is a perl programm that might have to be installed and that it takes regular expressions as the argument.

                    – user601
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:30











                  • Ah, I was not aware of that. I'll give credit to the canonical answer, when I identify it :)

                    – Internet man
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:33






                  • 5





                    This rename program came from a Perl examples distribution. Debian and Ubuntu ship it as /usr/bin/rename. Other Unix variants may not provide it, or may provide a completely different /usr/bin/rename.

                    – Gilles
                    Aug 24 '10 at 7:17






                  • 1





                    Some versions of rename take a from to replacement pattern: rename [options] <expression> <replacement> <file>...

                    – melds
                    Dec 29 '15 at 18:42







                  • 1





                    If you are using a Debian based system then sudo apt-get install rename, then you can use the rename command. It is sed for filenames.

                    – ctrl-alt-delor
                    Dec 31 '16 at 17:20















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                  On Debian and derivatives, Perl's rename works similarly to sed like this:



                   rename -v 's/image//' *.png


                  There's also the rename from util-linux that works like this, instead:



                   rename image '' *.png





                  share|improve this answer




















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                    you really should explain that this is a perl programm that might have to be installed and that it takes regular expressions as the argument.

                    – user601
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:30











                  • Ah, I was not aware of that. I'll give credit to the canonical answer, when I identify it :)

                    – Internet man
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:33






                  • 5





                    This rename program came from a Perl examples distribution. Debian and Ubuntu ship it as /usr/bin/rename. Other Unix variants may not provide it, or may provide a completely different /usr/bin/rename.

                    – Gilles
                    Aug 24 '10 at 7:17






                  • 1





                    Some versions of rename take a from to replacement pattern: rename [options] <expression> <replacement> <file>...

                    – melds
                    Dec 29 '15 at 18:42







                  • 1





                    If you are using a Debian based system then sudo apt-get install rename, then you can use the rename command. It is sed for filenames.

                    – ctrl-alt-delor
                    Dec 31 '16 at 17:20













                  100












                  100








                  100







                  On Debian and derivatives, Perl's rename works similarly to sed like this:



                   rename -v 's/image//' *.png


                  There's also the rename from util-linux that works like this, instead:



                   rename image '' *.png





                  share|improve this answer















                  On Debian and derivatives, Perl's rename works similarly to sed like this:



                   rename -v 's/image//' *.png


                  There's also the rename from util-linux that works like this, instead:



                   rename image '' *.png






                  share|improve this answer














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                  edited Aug 20 '16 at 13:43









                  don_crissti

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                  answered Aug 24 '10 at 0:12









                  Internet manInternet man

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                  • 6





                    you really should explain that this is a perl programm that might have to be installed and that it takes regular expressions as the argument.

                    – user601
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:30











                  • Ah, I was not aware of that. I'll give credit to the canonical answer, when I identify it :)

                    – Internet man
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:33






                  • 5





                    This rename program came from a Perl examples distribution. Debian and Ubuntu ship it as /usr/bin/rename. Other Unix variants may not provide it, or may provide a completely different /usr/bin/rename.

                    – Gilles
                    Aug 24 '10 at 7:17






                  • 1





                    Some versions of rename take a from to replacement pattern: rename [options] <expression> <replacement> <file>...

                    – melds
                    Dec 29 '15 at 18:42







                  • 1





                    If you are using a Debian based system then sudo apt-get install rename, then you can use the rename command. It is sed for filenames.

                    – ctrl-alt-delor
                    Dec 31 '16 at 17:20












                  • 6





                    you really should explain that this is a perl programm that might have to be installed and that it takes regular expressions as the argument.

                    – user601
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:30











                  • Ah, I was not aware of that. I'll give credit to the canonical answer, when I identify it :)

                    – Internet man
                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:33






                  • 5





                    This rename program came from a Perl examples distribution. Debian and Ubuntu ship it as /usr/bin/rename. Other Unix variants may not provide it, or may provide a completely different /usr/bin/rename.

                    – Gilles
                    Aug 24 '10 at 7:17






                  • 1





                    Some versions of rename take a from to replacement pattern: rename [options] <expression> <replacement> <file>...

                    – melds
                    Dec 29 '15 at 18:42







                  • 1





                    If you are using a Debian based system then sudo apt-get install rename, then you can use the rename command. It is sed for filenames.

                    – ctrl-alt-delor
                    Dec 31 '16 at 17:20







                  6




                  6





                  you really should explain that this is a perl programm that might have to be installed and that it takes regular expressions as the argument.

                  – user601
                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:30





                  you really should explain that this is a perl programm that might have to be installed and that it takes regular expressions as the argument.

                  – user601
                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:30













                  Ah, I was not aware of that. I'll give credit to the canonical answer, when I identify it :)

                  – Internet man
                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:33





                  Ah, I was not aware of that. I'll give credit to the canonical answer, when I identify it :)

                  – Internet man
                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:33




                  5




                  5





                  This rename program came from a Perl examples distribution. Debian and Ubuntu ship it as /usr/bin/rename. Other Unix variants may not provide it, or may provide a completely different /usr/bin/rename.

                  – Gilles
                  Aug 24 '10 at 7:17





                  This rename program came from a Perl examples distribution. Debian and Ubuntu ship it as /usr/bin/rename. Other Unix variants may not provide it, or may provide a completely different /usr/bin/rename.

                  – Gilles
                  Aug 24 '10 at 7:17




                  1




                  1





                  Some versions of rename take a from to replacement pattern: rename [options] <expression> <replacement> <file>...

                  – melds
                  Dec 29 '15 at 18:42






                  Some versions of rename take a from to replacement pattern: rename [options] <expression> <replacement> <file>...

                  – melds
                  Dec 29 '15 at 18:42





                  1




                  1





                  If you are using a Debian based system then sudo apt-get install rename, then you can use the rename command. It is sed for filenames.

                  – ctrl-alt-delor
                  Dec 31 '16 at 17:20





                  If you are using a Debian based system then sudo apt-get install rename, then you can use the rename command. It is sed for filenames.

                  – ctrl-alt-delor
                  Dec 31 '16 at 17:20











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                  zmv



                  The zsh shell has a powerful batch rename command called zmv.



                  First you need to enable the zmv command as follows (this can go into your ~/.zshrc).



                  autoload zmv


                  The basic syntax is zmv PATTERN REPLACEMENT. The pattern is a shell glob expression. Parts of the pattern can be surrounded by parentheses. The replacement text can contain $1, $2, etc. to refer to the Nth parenthesised group in the pattern. For example:



                  zmv 'image(*.png)' '$1'


                  You can also ask zsh to automatically define $1, $2, etc. to match the wildcard characters in the pattern:



                  zmv -w 'image*.png' '$1.png'





                  share|improve this answer




















                  • 4





                    sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yet another reason i should be learning zsh.

                    – ixtmixilix
                    Oct 11 '11 at 13:16






                  • 1





                    @ixtmixilix what's to learn? Just start using it and perhaps add prezto (github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) for some extra awesomeness.

                    – Gerry
                    Aug 15 '12 at 8:09











                  • Really cool, as pointed in zmv's man this can be further simplified by adding alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' to: mmv *.c.orig orig/*.c

                    – Bretsko
                    Aug 29 '17 at 16:10












                  • Enabling zmv prezto requires uncommenting the line in your ~/.zpreztorc following # Set the Zsh functions to load (man zshcontrib). giving zstyle ':prezto:load' zfunction 'zargs' 'zmv'

                    – Matt Bracewell
                    Apr 1 at 21:51















                  39














                  zmv



                  The zsh shell has a powerful batch rename command called zmv.



                  First you need to enable the zmv command as follows (this can go into your ~/.zshrc).



                  autoload zmv


                  The basic syntax is zmv PATTERN REPLACEMENT. The pattern is a shell glob expression. Parts of the pattern can be surrounded by parentheses. The replacement text can contain $1, $2, etc. to refer to the Nth parenthesised group in the pattern. For example:



                  zmv 'image(*.png)' '$1'


                  You can also ask zsh to automatically define $1, $2, etc. to match the wildcard characters in the pattern:



                  zmv -w 'image*.png' '$1.png'





                  share|improve this answer




















                  • 4





                    sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yet another reason i should be learning zsh.

                    – ixtmixilix
                    Oct 11 '11 at 13:16






                  • 1





                    @ixtmixilix what's to learn? Just start using it and perhaps add prezto (github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) for some extra awesomeness.

                    – Gerry
                    Aug 15 '12 at 8:09











                  • Really cool, as pointed in zmv's man this can be further simplified by adding alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' to: mmv *.c.orig orig/*.c

                    – Bretsko
                    Aug 29 '17 at 16:10












                  • Enabling zmv prezto requires uncommenting the line in your ~/.zpreztorc following # Set the Zsh functions to load (man zshcontrib). giving zstyle ':prezto:load' zfunction 'zargs' 'zmv'

                    – Matt Bracewell
                    Apr 1 at 21:51













                  39












                  39








                  39







                  zmv



                  The zsh shell has a powerful batch rename command called zmv.



                  First you need to enable the zmv command as follows (this can go into your ~/.zshrc).



                  autoload zmv


                  The basic syntax is zmv PATTERN REPLACEMENT. The pattern is a shell glob expression. Parts of the pattern can be surrounded by parentheses. The replacement text can contain $1, $2, etc. to refer to the Nth parenthesised group in the pattern. For example:



                  zmv 'image(*.png)' '$1'


                  You can also ask zsh to automatically define $1, $2, etc. to match the wildcard characters in the pattern:



                  zmv -w 'image*.png' '$1.png'





                  share|improve this answer















                  zmv



                  The zsh shell has a powerful batch rename command called zmv.



                  First you need to enable the zmv command as follows (this can go into your ~/.zshrc).



                  autoload zmv


                  The basic syntax is zmv PATTERN REPLACEMENT. The pattern is a shell glob expression. Parts of the pattern can be surrounded by parentheses. The replacement text can contain $1, $2, etc. to refer to the Nth parenthesised group in the pattern. For example:



                  zmv 'image(*.png)' '$1'


                  You can also ask zsh to automatically define $1, $2, etc. to match the wildcard characters in the pattern:



                  zmv -w 'image*.png' '$1.png'






                  share|improve this answer














                  share|improve this answer



                  share|improve this answer








                  answered Aug 24 '10 at 0:15


























                  community wiki





                  Gilles








                  • 4





                    sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yet another reason i should be learning zsh.

                    – ixtmixilix
                    Oct 11 '11 at 13:16






                  • 1





                    @ixtmixilix what's to learn? Just start using it and perhaps add prezto (github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) for some extra awesomeness.

                    – Gerry
                    Aug 15 '12 at 8:09











                  • Really cool, as pointed in zmv's man this can be further simplified by adding alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' to: mmv *.c.orig orig/*.c

                    – Bretsko
                    Aug 29 '17 at 16:10












                  • Enabling zmv prezto requires uncommenting the line in your ~/.zpreztorc following # Set the Zsh functions to load (man zshcontrib). giving zstyle ':prezto:load' zfunction 'zargs' 'zmv'

                    – Matt Bracewell
                    Apr 1 at 21:51












                  • 4





                    sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yet another reason i should be learning zsh.

                    – ixtmixilix
                    Oct 11 '11 at 13:16






                  • 1





                    @ixtmixilix what's to learn? Just start using it and perhaps add prezto (github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) for some extra awesomeness.

                    – Gerry
                    Aug 15 '12 at 8:09











                  • Really cool, as pointed in zmv's man this can be further simplified by adding alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' to: mmv *.c.orig orig/*.c

                    – Bretsko
                    Aug 29 '17 at 16:10












                  • Enabling zmv prezto requires uncommenting the line in your ~/.zpreztorc following # Set the Zsh functions to load (man zshcontrib). giving zstyle ':prezto:load' zfunction 'zargs' 'zmv'

                    – Matt Bracewell
                    Apr 1 at 21:51







                  4




                  4





                  sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yet another reason i should be learning zsh.

                  – ixtmixilix
                  Oct 11 '11 at 13:16





                  sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yet another reason i should be learning zsh.

                  – ixtmixilix
                  Oct 11 '11 at 13:16




                  1




                  1





                  @ixtmixilix what's to learn? Just start using it and perhaps add prezto (github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) for some extra awesomeness.

                  – Gerry
                  Aug 15 '12 at 8:09





                  @ixtmixilix what's to learn? Just start using it and perhaps add prezto (github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) for some extra awesomeness.

                  – Gerry
                  Aug 15 '12 at 8:09













                  Really cool, as pointed in zmv's man this can be further simplified by adding alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' to: mmv *.c.orig orig/*.c

                  – Bretsko
                  Aug 29 '17 at 16:10






                  Really cool, as pointed in zmv's man this can be further simplified by adding alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' to: mmv *.c.orig orig/*.c

                  – Bretsko
                  Aug 29 '17 at 16:10














                  Enabling zmv prezto requires uncommenting the line in your ~/.zpreztorc following # Set the Zsh functions to load (man zshcontrib). giving zstyle ':prezto:load' zfunction 'zargs' 'zmv'

                  – Matt Bracewell
                  Apr 1 at 21:51





                  Enabling zmv prezto requires uncommenting the line in your ~/.zpreztorc following # Set the Zsh functions to load (man zshcontrib). giving zstyle ':prezto:load' zfunction 'zargs' 'zmv'

                  – Matt Bracewell
                  Apr 1 at 21:51











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                  I normally use the nice and simple mmv (man page) utility for this usecase:



                  $ mmv "image*.png" "#1.png"


                  will perform your task.



                  The #1 in the target pattern will be substituted with whatever matches the wildcard in the source pattern. This also works for several wildcards and can be used for example to change the order of parts of filenames. You can also easily do more complicated things like converting lower case to upper case letters.



                  Make sure to protect the patterns from the shell by quoting.






                  share|improve this answer

























                  • Thanks for pointing out this utility. I found it in Debian, Ubuntu and Cygwin repositories. I had trouble with the man page, but found some web pages and this Stack Overflow question that helped explain how you were using it. stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 16:12











                  • Thanks, I added some more information to the answer to make it clearer.

                    – Marcel Stimberg
                    Aug 25 '10 at 19:28






                  • 2





                    Can't upvote it enough! It's so simple and friendly. Available for OS X in homebrew.

                    – Greg Dubicki
                    Mar 17 '17 at 9:33















                  31














                  I normally use the nice and simple mmv (man page) utility for this usecase:



                  $ mmv "image*.png" "#1.png"


                  will perform your task.



                  The #1 in the target pattern will be substituted with whatever matches the wildcard in the source pattern. This also works for several wildcards and can be used for example to change the order of parts of filenames. You can also easily do more complicated things like converting lower case to upper case letters.



                  Make sure to protect the patterns from the shell by quoting.






                  share|improve this answer

























                  • Thanks for pointing out this utility. I found it in Debian, Ubuntu and Cygwin repositories. I had trouble with the man page, but found some web pages and this Stack Overflow question that helped explain how you were using it. stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 16:12











                  • Thanks, I added some more information to the answer to make it clearer.

                    – Marcel Stimberg
                    Aug 25 '10 at 19:28






                  • 2





                    Can't upvote it enough! It's so simple and friendly. Available for OS X in homebrew.

                    – Greg Dubicki
                    Mar 17 '17 at 9:33













                  31












                  31








                  31







                  I normally use the nice and simple mmv (man page) utility for this usecase:



                  $ mmv "image*.png" "#1.png"


                  will perform your task.



                  The #1 in the target pattern will be substituted with whatever matches the wildcard in the source pattern. This also works for several wildcards and can be used for example to change the order of parts of filenames. You can also easily do more complicated things like converting lower case to upper case letters.



                  Make sure to protect the patterns from the shell by quoting.






                  share|improve this answer















                  I normally use the nice and simple mmv (man page) utility for this usecase:



                  $ mmv "image*.png" "#1.png"


                  will perform your task.



                  The #1 in the target pattern will be substituted with whatever matches the wildcard in the source pattern. This also works for several wildcards and can be used for example to change the order of parts of filenames. You can also easily do more complicated things like converting lower case to upper case letters.



                  Make sure to protect the patterns from the shell by quoting.







                  share|improve this answer














                  share|improve this answer



                  share|improve this answer








                  edited Aug 21 '16 at 20:04









                  Greg Dubicki

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                  answered Aug 24 '10 at 15:37









                  Marcel StimbergMarcel Stimberg

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                  2,9721314












                  • Thanks for pointing out this utility. I found it in Debian, Ubuntu and Cygwin repositories. I had trouble with the man page, but found some web pages and this Stack Overflow question that helped explain how you were using it. stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 16:12











                  • Thanks, I added some more information to the answer to make it clearer.

                    – Marcel Stimberg
                    Aug 25 '10 at 19:28






                  • 2





                    Can't upvote it enough! It's so simple and friendly. Available for OS X in homebrew.

                    – Greg Dubicki
                    Mar 17 '17 at 9:33

















                  • Thanks for pointing out this utility. I found it in Debian, Ubuntu and Cygwin repositories. I had trouble with the man page, but found some web pages and this Stack Overflow question that helped explain how you were using it. stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename

                    – W_Whalley
                    Aug 25 '10 at 16:12











                  • Thanks, I added some more information to the answer to make it clearer.

                    – Marcel Stimberg
                    Aug 25 '10 at 19:28






                  • 2





                    Can't upvote it enough! It's so simple and friendly. Available for OS X in homebrew.

                    – Greg Dubicki
                    Mar 17 '17 at 9:33
















                  Thanks for pointing out this utility. I found it in Debian, Ubuntu and Cygwin repositories. I had trouble with the man page, but found some web pages and this Stack Overflow question that helped explain how you were using it. stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename

                  – W_Whalley
                  Aug 25 '10 at 16:12





                  Thanks for pointing out this utility. I found it in Debian, Ubuntu and Cygwin repositories. I had trouble with the man page, but found some web pages and this Stack Overflow question that helped explain how you were using it. stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename

                  – W_Whalley
                  Aug 25 '10 at 16:12













                  Thanks, I added some more information to the answer to make it clearer.

                  – Marcel Stimberg
                  Aug 25 '10 at 19:28





                  Thanks, I added some more information to the answer to make it clearer.

                  – Marcel Stimberg
                  Aug 25 '10 at 19:28




                  2




                  2





                  Can't upvote it enough! It's so simple and friendly. Available for OS X in homebrew.

                  – Greg Dubicki
                  Mar 17 '17 at 9:33





                  Can't upvote it enough! It's so simple and friendly. Available for OS X in homebrew.

                  – Greg Dubicki
                  Mar 17 '17 at 9:33











                  8














                  POSIX sh for loop



                  Uses sed to rename



                  for i in image*jpg
                  do
                  mv -v "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                  done





                  share|improve this answer



























                    8














                    POSIX sh for loop



                    Uses sed to rename



                    for i in image*jpg
                    do
                    mv -v "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                    done





                    share|improve this answer

























                      8












                      8








                      8







                      POSIX sh for loop



                      Uses sed to rename



                      for i in image*jpg
                      do
                      mv -v "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                      done





                      share|improve this answer













                      POSIX sh for loop



                      Uses sed to rename



                      for i in image*jpg
                      do
                      mv -v "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                      done






                      share|improve this answer












                      share|improve this answer



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                      answered Feb 10 '14 at 16:45









                      X TianX Tian

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                          6














                          I like Perl so:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s/image//; qx(mv $old $_)'


                          You can also use the same pattern for other tasks like copying the files to another directory:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s(image)(/path/to/new/dir/); qx(mv $old $_)'





                          share|improve this answer


















                          • 2





                            Or (safer!): rename($old,$_)

                            – reinierpost
                            Aug 7 '14 at 11:57















                          6














                          I like Perl so:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s/image//; qx(mv $old $_)'


                          You can also use the same pattern for other tasks like copying the files to another directory:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s(image)(/path/to/new/dir/); qx(mv $old $_)'





                          share|improve this answer


















                          • 2





                            Or (safer!): rename($old,$_)

                            – reinierpost
                            Aug 7 '14 at 11:57













                          6












                          6








                          6







                          I like Perl so:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s/image//; qx(mv $old $_)'


                          You can also use the same pattern for other tasks like copying the files to another directory:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s(image)(/path/to/new/dir/); qx(mv $old $_)'





                          share|improve this answer













                          I like Perl so:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s/image//; qx(mv $old $_)'


                          You can also use the same pattern for other tasks like copying the files to another directory:



                          perl -nlE '$old=$_; s(image)(/path/to/new/dir/); qx(mv $old $_)'






                          share|improve this answer












                          share|improve this answer



                          share|improve this answer










                          answered Aug 24 '10 at 0:56









                          gvkvgvkv

                          2,3251817




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                          • 2





                            Or (safer!): rename($old,$_)

                            – reinierpost
                            Aug 7 '14 at 11:57












                          • 2





                            Or (safer!): rename($old,$_)

                            – reinierpost
                            Aug 7 '14 at 11:57







                          2




                          2





                          Or (safer!): rename($old,$_)

                          – reinierpost
                          Aug 7 '14 at 11:57





                          Or (safer!): rename($old,$_)

                          – reinierpost
                          Aug 7 '14 at 11:57











                          4














                          qmv



                          The command qmv from renameutils opens an editor showing a list of filenames with two colums, separated by a tab. Each row shows one of the filenames, the same in both columns. The right column is representing the new names of the files.

                          To make changes, edit the names on the right side. In this example, :%s/... or visual block mode are helpful.



                          Filenames in your editor



                          $ qmv *.png


                          In editor:



                          image0001.png image0001.png
                          image0002.png image0002.png
                          image0003.png image0003.png
                          ~
                          ~
                          ~
                          ~
                          "/tmp/user/1000/qmvxWyVMs" 3L, 93C


                          Edit names in right column:

                          (Removing the image prefix from all lines using visual block mode)



                          image0001.png 0001.png
                          image0002.png 0002.png
                          image0003.png 0003.png
                          ~
                          ~
                          ~
                          ~
                          :wq


                          Log of renaming:



                          image0001.png -> 0001.png
                          image0002.png -> 0002.png
                          image0003.png -> 0003.png



                          (e.g. Ubuntu: apt-get install renameutils)






                          share|improve this answer



























                            4














                            qmv



                            The command qmv from renameutils opens an editor showing a list of filenames with two colums, separated by a tab. Each row shows one of the filenames, the same in both columns. The right column is representing the new names of the files.

                            To make changes, edit the names on the right side. In this example, :%s/... or visual block mode are helpful.



                            Filenames in your editor



                            $ qmv *.png


                            In editor:



                            image0001.png image0001.png
                            image0002.png image0002.png
                            image0003.png image0003.png
                            ~
                            ~
                            ~
                            ~
                            "/tmp/user/1000/qmvxWyVMs" 3L, 93C


                            Edit names in right column:

                            (Removing the image prefix from all lines using visual block mode)



                            image0001.png 0001.png
                            image0002.png 0002.png
                            image0003.png 0003.png
                            ~
                            ~
                            ~
                            ~
                            :wq


                            Log of renaming:



                            image0001.png -> 0001.png
                            image0002.png -> 0002.png
                            image0003.png -> 0003.png



                            (e.g. Ubuntu: apt-get install renameutils)






                            share|improve this answer

























                              4












                              4








                              4







                              qmv



                              The command qmv from renameutils opens an editor showing a list of filenames with two colums, separated by a tab. Each row shows one of the filenames, the same in both columns. The right column is representing the new names of the files.

                              To make changes, edit the names on the right side. In this example, :%s/... or visual block mode are helpful.



                              Filenames in your editor



                              $ qmv *.png


                              In editor:



                              image0001.png image0001.png
                              image0002.png image0002.png
                              image0003.png image0003.png
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              "/tmp/user/1000/qmvxWyVMs" 3L, 93C


                              Edit names in right column:

                              (Removing the image prefix from all lines using visual block mode)



                              image0001.png 0001.png
                              image0002.png 0002.png
                              image0003.png 0003.png
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              :wq


                              Log of renaming:



                              image0001.png -> 0001.png
                              image0002.png -> 0002.png
                              image0003.png -> 0003.png



                              (e.g. Ubuntu: apt-get install renameutils)






                              share|improve this answer













                              qmv



                              The command qmv from renameutils opens an editor showing a list of filenames with two colums, separated by a tab. Each row shows one of the filenames, the same in both columns. The right column is representing the new names of the files.

                              To make changes, edit the names on the right side. In this example, :%s/... or visual block mode are helpful.



                              Filenames in your editor



                              $ qmv *.png


                              In editor:



                              image0001.png image0001.png
                              image0002.png image0002.png
                              image0003.png image0003.png
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              "/tmp/user/1000/qmvxWyVMs" 3L, 93C


                              Edit names in right column:

                              (Removing the image prefix from all lines using visual block mode)



                              image0001.png 0001.png
                              image0002.png 0002.png
                              image0003.png 0003.png
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              ~
                              :wq


                              Log of renaming:



                              image0001.png -> 0001.png
                              image0002.png -> 0002.png
                              image0003.png -> 0003.png



                              (e.g. Ubuntu: apt-get install renameutils)







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                                  recursive



                                  easy recurse selecting image*png files, and assumes no need to deal with newline in file names



                                  find . -name "image*.png" | while read f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done


                                  Safe, can deal with spaces, new lines, backslashes and anything else:



                                  find . -name "image*.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do 
                                  mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )";
                                  done





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                                    recursive



                                    easy recurse selecting image*png files, and assumes no need to deal with newline in file names



                                    find . -name "image*.png" | while read f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done


                                    Safe, can deal with spaces, new lines, backslashes and anything else:



                                    find . -name "image*.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do 
                                    mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )";
                                    done





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                                      recursive



                                      easy recurse selecting image*png files, and assumes no need to deal with newline in file names



                                      find . -name "image*.png" | while read f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done


                                      Safe, can deal with spaces, new lines, backslashes and anything else:



                                      find . -name "image*.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do 
                                      mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )";
                                      done





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                                      recursive



                                      easy recurse selecting image*png files, and assumes no need to deal with newline in file names



                                      find . -name "image*.png" | while read f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done


                                      Safe, can deal with spaces, new lines, backslashes and anything else:



                                      find . -name "image*.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do 
                                      mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )";
                                      done






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                                      X TianX Tian

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                                          POSIX sh using a while loop



                                          Reading names from find command.



                                          find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'image*png' | while IFS= read -r f; do
                                          mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                                          done


                                          Reading names from a file



                                          while IFS= read -r f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f"|sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done < flist





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                                            POSIX sh using a while loop



                                            Reading names from find command.



                                            find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'image*png' | while IFS= read -r f; do
                                            mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                                            done


                                            Reading names from a file



                                            while IFS= read -r f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f"|sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done < flist





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                                              1







                                              POSIX sh using a while loop



                                              Reading names from find command.



                                              find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'image*png' | while IFS= read -r f; do
                                              mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                                              done


                                              Reading names from a file



                                              while IFS= read -r f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f"|sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done < flist





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                                              POSIX sh using a while loop



                                              Reading names from find command.



                                              find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'image*png' | while IFS= read -r f; do
                                              mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"
                                              done


                                              Reading names from a file



                                              while IFS= read -r f; do mv -v "$f" "$(echo "$f"|sed -e 's/^./image//' - )"; done < flist






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                                              X TianX Tian

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                                                  Using shell brace expansion:



                                                  for N in 0001..1000; do mv "image,$N.png"; done





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                                                    Using shell brace expansion:



                                                    for N in 0001..1000; do mv "image,$N.png"; done





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                                                      Using shell brace expansion:



                                                      for N in 0001..1000; do mv "image,$N.png"; done





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                                                      Using shell brace expansion:



                                                      for N in 0001..1000; do mv "image,$N.png"; done






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                                                      αғsнιηαғsнιη

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                                                          For Windows and linux, this Perl script will do; in this case:



                                                          $ rnm -l 's/^image//' '*.png'


                                                          The script could run recursively under directories and even prepending a count to all of them:



                                                          $ rnm -r 's/^/$counter./' '/.png$/'


                                                          UTF-8 chars are also correctly treated, both in Windows and linux.






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                                                            For Windows and linux, this Perl script will do; in this case:



                                                            $ rnm -l 's/^image//' '*.png'


                                                            The script could run recursively under directories and even prepending a count to all of them:



                                                            $ rnm -r 's/^/$counter./' '/.png$/'


                                                            UTF-8 chars are also correctly treated, both in Windows and linux.






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                                                              1







                                                              For Windows and linux, this Perl script will do; in this case:



                                                              $ rnm -l 's/^image//' '*.png'


                                                              The script could run recursively under directories and even prepending a count to all of them:



                                                              $ rnm -r 's/^/$counter./' '/.png$/'


                                                              UTF-8 chars are also correctly treated, both in Windows and linux.






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                                                              For Windows and linux, this Perl script will do; in this case:



                                                              $ rnm -l 's/^image//' '*.png'


                                                              The script could run recursively under directories and even prepending a count to all of them:



                                                              $ rnm -r 's/^/$counter./' '/.png$/'


                                                              UTF-8 chars are also correctly treated, both in Windows and linux.







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                                                                  You can use this tool: rnm (web page)



                                                                  For your case the command would be:



                                                                  rnm -rs '/^image//' *.png


                                                                  You can find more examples/docs here.






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                                                                    You can use this tool: rnm (web page)



                                                                    For your case the command would be:



                                                                    rnm -rs '/^image//' *.png


                                                                    You can find more examples/docs here.






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                                                                      You can use this tool: rnm (web page)



                                                                      For your case the command would be:



                                                                      rnm -rs '/^image//' *.png


                                                                      You can find more examples/docs here.






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                                                                      You can use this tool: rnm (web page)



                                                                      For your case the command would be:



                                                                      rnm -rs '/^image//' *.png


                                                                      You can find more examples/docs here.







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                                                                          Try brename (https://github.com/shenwei356/brename), a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression (supporting Windows, Linux and OS X) .



                                                                          @patrickDurusau said:




                                                                          Linux has a variety of batch file renaming options but I didn’t see any short-comings in brename that jumped out at me.




                                                                          Features:




                                                                          • Cross-platform. Supporting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


                                                                          • Safe. By checking potential conflicts and errors.


                                                                          • File filtering. Supporting including and excluding files via regular expression.
                                                                            No need to run commands like find ./ -name "*.html" -exec CMD.


                                                                          • Renaming submatch with corresponding value via key-value file.


                                                                          • Renaming via ascending integer.


                                                                          • Recursively renaming both files and directories.


                                                                          • Supporting dry run.


                                                                          • Colorful output.

                                                                          Command:



                                                                          $ brename -f .png -p image
                                                                          [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                          [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                          [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                          [INFO] 3 path(s) to be renamed
                                                                          [INFO] renamed: 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                          [INFO] renamed: 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                          [INFO] renamed: 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                          [INFO] 3 path(s) renamed





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                                                                            Try brename (https://github.com/shenwei356/brename), a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression (supporting Windows, Linux and OS X) .



                                                                            @patrickDurusau said:




                                                                            Linux has a variety of batch file renaming options but I didn’t see any short-comings in brename that jumped out at me.




                                                                            Features:




                                                                            • Cross-platform. Supporting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


                                                                            • Safe. By checking potential conflicts and errors.


                                                                            • File filtering. Supporting including and excluding files via regular expression.
                                                                              No need to run commands like find ./ -name "*.html" -exec CMD.


                                                                            • Renaming submatch with corresponding value via key-value file.


                                                                            • Renaming via ascending integer.


                                                                            • Recursively renaming both files and directories.


                                                                            • Supporting dry run.


                                                                            • Colorful output.

                                                                            Command:



                                                                            $ brename -f .png -p image
                                                                            [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                            [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                            [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                            [INFO] 3 path(s) to be renamed
                                                                            [INFO] renamed: 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                            [INFO] renamed: 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                            [INFO] renamed: 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                            [INFO] 3 path(s) renamed





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                                                                              0







                                                                              Try brename (https://github.com/shenwei356/brename), a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression (supporting Windows, Linux and OS X) .



                                                                              @patrickDurusau said:




                                                                              Linux has a variety of batch file renaming options but I didn’t see any short-comings in brename that jumped out at me.




                                                                              Features:




                                                                              • Cross-platform. Supporting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


                                                                              • Safe. By checking potential conflicts and errors.


                                                                              • File filtering. Supporting including and excluding files via regular expression.
                                                                                No need to run commands like find ./ -name "*.html" -exec CMD.


                                                                              • Renaming submatch with corresponding value via key-value file.


                                                                              • Renaming via ascending integer.


                                                                              • Recursively renaming both files and directories.


                                                                              • Supporting dry run.


                                                                              • Colorful output.

                                                                              Command:



                                                                              $ brename -f .png -p image
                                                                              [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                              [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                              [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                              [INFO] 3 path(s) to be renamed
                                                                              [INFO] renamed: 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                              [INFO] renamed: 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                              [INFO] renamed: 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                              [INFO] 3 path(s) renamed





                                                                              share|improve this answer















                                                                              Try brename (https://github.com/shenwei356/brename), a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression (supporting Windows, Linux and OS X) .



                                                                              @patrickDurusau said:




                                                                              Linux has a variety of batch file renaming options but I didn’t see any short-comings in brename that jumped out at me.




                                                                              Features:




                                                                              • Cross-platform. Supporting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


                                                                              • Safe. By checking potential conflicts and errors.


                                                                              • File filtering. Supporting including and excluding files via regular expression.
                                                                                No need to run commands like find ./ -name "*.html" -exec CMD.


                                                                              • Renaming submatch with corresponding value via key-value file.


                                                                              • Renaming via ascending integer.


                                                                              • Recursively renaming both files and directories.


                                                                              • Supporting dry run.


                                                                              • Colorful output.

                                                                              Command:



                                                                              $ brename -f .png -p image
                                                                              [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                              [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                              [INFO] checking: [ ok ] 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                              [INFO] 3 path(s) to be renamed
                                                                              [INFO] renamed: 'image0001.png' -> '0001.png'
                                                                              [INFO] renamed: 'image0002.png' -> '0002.png'
                                                                              [INFO] renamed: 'image0003.png' -> '0003.png'
                                                                              [INFO] 3 path(s) renamed






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                                                                                  ls *png | while read -r f; do f2="`echo $f | sed -e's/image//'`"; mv $f $f2; done






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                                                                                  • Something's not right: "mv: missing destination file operand after 'image0001.png'"

                                                                                    – Internet man
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:06






                                                                                  • 3





                                                                                    There are many problems with your code. Parsing the output of ls is just calling for trouble. read should be read -r. all variable substitutions should be within double quotes.

                                                                                    – Gilles
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:20











                                                                                  • You could write this more effectively as for f in *png; do f2="$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/image//')"; mv "$f" "$f2"; done. Parsing ls is neither necessary nor a good idea.

                                                                                    – kojiro
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                                                                                  ls *png | while read -r f; do f2="`echo $f | sed -e's/image//'`"; mv $f $f2; done






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                                                                                  • Something's not right: "mv: missing destination file operand after 'image0001.png'"

                                                                                    – Internet man
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:06






                                                                                  • 3





                                                                                    There are many problems with your code. Parsing the output of ls is just calling for trouble. read should be read -r. all variable substitutions should be within double quotes.

                                                                                    – Gilles
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:20











                                                                                  • You could write this more effectively as for f in *png; do f2="$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/image//')"; mv "$f" "$f2"; done. Parsing ls is neither necessary nor a good idea.

                                                                                    – kojiro
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                                                                                  ls *png | while read -r f; do f2="`echo $f | sed -e's/image//'`"; mv $f $f2; done






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                                                                                  ls *png | while read -r f; do f2="`echo $f | sed -e's/image//'`"; mv $f $f2; done







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                                                                                  answered Aug 24 '10 at 0:02









                                                                                  Ivan PIvan P

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                                                                                  • Something's not right: "mv: missing destination file operand after 'image0001.png'"

                                                                                    – Internet man
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:06






                                                                                  • 3





                                                                                    There are many problems with your code. Parsing the output of ls is just calling for trouble. read should be read -r. all variable substitutions should be within double quotes.

                                                                                    – Gilles
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:20











                                                                                  • You could write this more effectively as for f in *png; do f2="$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/image//')"; mv "$f" "$f2"; done. Parsing ls is neither necessary nor a good idea.

                                                                                    – kojiro
                                                                                    Feb 10 '14 at 4:24

















                                                                                  • Something's not right: "mv: missing destination file operand after 'image0001.png'"

                                                                                    – Internet man
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:06






                                                                                  • 3





                                                                                    There are many problems with your code. Parsing the output of ls is just calling for trouble. read should be read -r. all variable substitutions should be within double quotes.

                                                                                    – Gilles
                                                                                    Aug 24 '10 at 0:20











                                                                                  • You could write this more effectively as for f in *png; do f2="$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/image//')"; mv "$f" "$f2"; done. Parsing ls is neither necessary nor a good idea.

                                                                                    – kojiro
                                                                                    Feb 10 '14 at 4:24
















                                                                                  Something's not right: "mv: missing destination file operand after 'image0001.png'"

                                                                                  – Internet man
                                                                                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:06





                                                                                  Something's not right: "mv: missing destination file operand after 'image0001.png'"

                                                                                  – Internet man
                                                                                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:06




                                                                                  3




                                                                                  3





                                                                                  There are many problems with your code. Parsing the output of ls is just calling for trouble. read should be read -r. all variable substitutions should be within double quotes.

                                                                                  – Gilles
                                                                                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:20





                                                                                  There are many problems with your code. Parsing the output of ls is just calling for trouble. read should be read -r. all variable substitutions should be within double quotes.

                                                                                  – Gilles
                                                                                  Aug 24 '10 at 0:20













                                                                                  You could write this more effectively as for f in *png; do f2="$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/image//')"; mv "$f" "$f2"; done. Parsing ls is neither necessary nor a good idea.

                                                                                  – kojiro
                                                                                  Feb 10 '14 at 4:24





                                                                                  You could write this more effectively as for f in *png; do f2="$(echo "$f" | sed -e 's/image//')"; mv "$f" "$f2"; done. Parsing ls is neither necessary nor a good idea.

                                                                                  – kojiro
                                                                                  Feb 10 '14 at 4:24





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