{"id":1777,"date":"2011-11-26T00:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T06:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2012-09-12T23:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:52:42","slug":"how-to-bulk-rename-files-in-linux-terminal-or-gui-webmaster-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"How to Bulk Rename Files in Linux (Terminal or GUI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The syntax for the rename command is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-v means &#8220;verbose&#8221; and it will output the names of the files when it renames them. It is a good idea to use this feature so you can keep track of what is being renamed. It is also a good idea to do a test run with -n which will do a test run where it won&#8217;t rename any files, but will show you a list of files that would be renamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/tips.webdesign10.com\/how-to-bulk-rename-files-in-linux-in-the-terminal\">How to Bulk Rename Files in Linux (Terminal or GUI) | Webmaster Tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The syntax for the rename command is: rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ] -v means &#8220;verbose&#8221; and it will output the names of the files when it renames them. It is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-linux-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}