brename is a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Safe – it helps you check potential conflicts and errors before it’s too late.
- Supports dry run – a good habit.
- Supporting Undo the LAST successful operation, like a time machine.
- Overwrite can be detected and users can choose whether overwrite or leave it
(-o/--overwrite-mode). - File filtering.
- Supporting including
(-f/--include-filters)and excluding(-F/--exclude-filters)files via regular expression. - No need to run commands like find ./ -name “*.html” -exec CMD.
- Renaming submatch with corresponding value via key-value file (-r “{kv}” -k kv.tsv).
- Renaming via ascending integer (-r “{nr}”).
- Automatically making directoy: e.g., renaming a-b-c.txt to a/b/c.txt.
- Recursively renaming both files and directories.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/shenwei356/brename
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Developer: Wei Shen
License: MIT License
brename is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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