Renamer is a command-line utility for renaming files and folders in bulk.
It is flexible and extensible through plugins and supports anything from straightforward text replacement to regular expressions and custom JavaScript transformations.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Renames files and directories in bulk.
- Accepts filenames, glob patterns, or newline-separated input from standard input.
- Processes files and folders recursively.
- Performs find-and-replace operations.
- Supports case-sensitive and case-insensitive regular expressions.
- Uses custom JavaScript replace-chain plugins for complex renaming operations.
- Provides a dry-run mode for previewing changes safely.
- Offers default, verbose, long, diff, and one-line output views.
- Supports custom output views.
- Can be installed globally or as a project development dependency using npm.
Website: github.com/75lb/renamer
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Developer: Lloyd Brookes
License: MIT License
Renamer is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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