Talk:Batch renaming

There's several OS X (Macintosh) batch renaming software programs... not just Automator.

Another shortcoming of batch rename is some software renames files, but not necessarily in the same sequence as displayed in a folder.

Windows XP will rename files in the order selected prior to invoking the "Rename..." command. That's good.

batch?
how can it be batch processing if it has a gui? "Batch processing is execution of a series of programs ("jobs") on a computer without manual intervention."

it's a bulk rename not a batch rename Jasen betts (talk) 12:14, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

two-pass
two pass renaming is doing it the hard way. you need to check that all the temporary filenames are legal, and unique, also as it doubles the number of os calls it's also slower.

A single temporary filename is sufficient if the renames are done in the right orderk, and it should be relatively easy to get one Jasen betts (talk) 12:25, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

List of batch renaming software
It may be nice to give a list of features and license information in the "List of batch renaming software" section. --98.70.43.71 (talk) 12:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I created the basic table, checked links and updated as needed, and removed spurious information (i.e. logrorate and pyrotate, etc.).  I'm not entirely certain that this list is "good enough", as it doesn't include some well known programs and does include lesser known programs.   Also there needs to be more sections to this table as in features of each program (i.e. EXIF renaming for photos, id3 tag renaming for MP3s, file renaming using dates, etc.).   I leave this up to other authors.   --98.70.43.71 (talk) 13:52, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm not too familiar with editing tables in raw wiki markup, but could someone add BULK RENAME UTILITY to the list of software? http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.20.91.3 (talk) 14:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Bekiroflaz (talk) 20:50, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

The Perl package in Debian contains a program called "rename" (linked from /usr/bin/prename by update-alternatives), originally written by Larry Wall and improved by another person. It takes a Perl expression and the names of files to be renamed as arguments. --AVRS (talk) 14:14, 16 February 2014 (UTC)