Comments on: PrefixSuffix - Gui application that renames batches of files in Ubuntu

By: Mossby

Mossby — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:08:22 +0000

KRename is great. But if you’re on Gnome, you’re gonna have to install 267MB of KDE stuff to run it. (Unless you’ve previously installed a KDE program) Not too big a deal these days, but a fair warning.

By: sandeep das

sandeep das — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:36:34 +0000

metmorphose its avery improved and very advance thanprefixsuffix

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:58:25 +0000

I would recommend using KRename for doing this. Yes, its a KDE app - but it has a lot more options when compared to this.

By: papukai

papukai — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:29:05 +0000

Metamorphose is much more advanced than prefixsuffix.

By: StickHutzee

StickHutzee — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:02:11 +0000

With bash:

for a in *oldsuffix; do mv $a ${a%oldsuffix}newsuffix; done

and you can use “#” (instead of “%”) for prefix substitution.

With zsh it’s more readable: mv $a ${a:s/oldsuffix/newsuffix}

But what beats them all is Emacs dired write mode (wdired-change-to-wdired-mode)… (^__^)

By: rakesh

rakesh — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:41:08 +0000

I am impressed by the use of bash by thomas, the bash constructs are very powerful and simple, but its made useless by using it less,

Though i appreiate the effort for making a GUI application, i just needed to highlight the usage of bash, The comment have no offence towards the GUI application

By: woohoo

woohoo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:03:50 +0000

I also use KRename, but on Gnome, it works very well.

By: N3storm

N3storm — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:49:39 +0000

Nice app, more of this easy-to-use needed for common tasks in every day computing. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: crjackson

crjackson — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:51:39 +0000

I’m trying to figure out how to wildcard rename the prefix. I want to rename everything in the directory with the person’s (they’re pictures) first name possibly followed by a number.

Is there a wildcard that will work with this application?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:11:00 +0000

Don’t forget the rename command. Perl-based, regexp support, very flexible and powerful.

From the mangape:

For example, to rename all files matching “*.bak” to strip the extension, you might say

rename ‘s/\.bak$//’ *.bak

To translate uppercase names to lower, you’d use

rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ *

By: stam

stam — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:10:41 +0000

I use GPRename 2.5 [A complete batch renamer for files and directories.] which is quite good actually…

By: Sciamano

Sciamano — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:20:16 +0000

For the KDE environment, there is KRename which is a much more powerful renamer.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:39:11 +0000

This is a scenario where a bash script is much more capable. Maybe you should post some useful batch renaming scripts…