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  • osugi_sakae@midwest.social
    6·
    9 hours ago

    krename is another excellent, but not as well known as it should be, KDE app.

    krename can rename files and directories, and directories recursively, to almost anything. You can rename:

    • using information from the files or about the files (image info, date / time info, etc)
    • with templates (like #### for incrementing 0001, 0002, 0003, etc)
    • by adding parts of the original file name (first three characters then the last 4 characters, for example)
    • using find and replace (spaces to underscore, remove special characters, etc), including regular expressions
    • by changing case

    or with a mix of everything.

    krename has a simple mode and an advanced mode for renaming, so you don’t have to jump into the deep end with the features.

    You do have to be careful with some of the file info functions - it will happily try to rename a movie or a pdf with (non-existent) image EXIF info, for example. That would result in a file with a name you did not intend.