Bulk rename files

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I have a number of files:

10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230014_5335.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231514_0814.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233014_5706.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234514_0896.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230114_5395.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231614_1145.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233114_6047.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234614_0547.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230114_5492.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231614_1264.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233114_6146.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234614_0658.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230214_5630.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231714_7135.jpg

I want to rename with this format:

10.4.100.135_01_20161013131108389_TIMING.jpg
10.4.100.135_01_20161013131111390_TIMING.jpg
10.4.100.135_01_20161013131114401_TIMING.jpg
10.4.100.135_01_20161013131117431_TIMING.jpg
10.4.100.135_01_20161013131120418_TIMING.jpg
10.4.100.135_01_20161013131123461_TIMING.jpg
10.4.100.135_01_20161013131126511_TIMING.jpg

It needs to remove the _ in timestamp and add the _TIMING.

score 72 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 23 '21 at 15:23

Install renameutils and use qmv with your favorite text editor with:

sudo apt install renameutils

qmv loads all names in your editor and when you save and close it applies your changes to the actual files. If the changes are inconsistent (e.g. two files get the same name) it will abort without touching anything. It also handles circular renames correctly.

I usually do:

$ qmv -f do

so that it shows just one column of names (do: destination-only). Here's how it looks:

qmw

If you combine it with the multiple cursors of SublimeText, Atom or Visual Studio Code, it makes a very nice and powerful tool for bulk renaming. For instance, for Atom, you would do EDITOR="atom -w" qmv -f do.

score 34 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 29 '18 at 16:07

Use rename...

rename -n 's/^([0-9]+\.[0-9]\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+_[0-9]+_)([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)\.jpg/$1$2$3$4_TIMING\.jpg/' *

With -n this will output what it's going to do without making any changes:

rename(10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230014_5335.jpg, 10.3.100.179_01_201610182300145335_TIMING.jpg)
rename(10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231514_0814.jpg, 10.3.100.179_01_201610182315140814_TIMING.jpg)
rename(10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233014_5706.jpg, 10.3.100.179_01_201610182330145706_TIMING.jpg)
rename(10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234514_0896.jpg, 10.3.100.179_01_201610182345140896_TIMING.jpg)

If it looks right, remove the -n

$ rename 's/^([0-9]+\.[0-9]\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+_[0-9]+_)([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)\.jpg/$1$2$3$4_TIMING\.jpg/' *
$ ls
10.3.100.179_01_201610182300145335_TIMING.jpg  10.3.100.179_01_201610182330145706_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_201610182315140814_TIMING.jpg  10.3.100.179_01_201610182345140896_TIMING.jpg

Explaining...

s/something/something_else/ search and replace
^ the beginning of the name (anchoring)
[0-9] any number
+ one or more of the preceeding character
\. literal . (without \ this matches any character)
() to keep this part
$1$2$3$3 back references to the things matched earlier and kept with ()

Note: the * at the end of the command is matching all visible files in the current directory. Use a more suitable glob if necessary.

score 16 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 05 '18 at 22:02

16

mmv can do it as in the following:

mmv '*_*_*_*_*.jpg' '#1_#2_#3#4#5_TIMING.jpg'

10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230014_5335.jpg 10.3.100.179_01_201610182300145335_TIMING.jpg

#1, #2, #3, ... is referencing each one to the matching '*' here.

It is even shorter with:

mmv '*_*_*.jpg' '#1#2#3_TIMING.jpg'

edited Jul 05 '18 at 22:02

Ivan Castellanos

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answered Oct 21 '16 at 07:37

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score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 21 '16 at 09:26

Another rename approach:

$ rename -n 's/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)\./$1$2$3_TIMING./' *
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230014_5335.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182300145335_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230114_5395.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182301145395_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230114_5492.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182301145492_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230214_5630.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182302145630_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231514_0814.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182315140814_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231614_1145.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182316141145_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231614_1264.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182316141264_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231714_7135.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182317147135_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233014_5706.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182330145706_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233114_6047.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182331146047_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233114_6146.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182331146146_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234514_0896.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182345140896_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234614_0547.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182346140547_TIMING.jpg
10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234614_0658.jpg -> 10.3.100.179_01_201610182346140658_TIMING.jpg

If that seems to work as you want it to, remove the -n.

score 5 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 22 '16 at 12:22

You can also use the following. First take a backup your files and try this:

find . -name "*.jpg" -type f -print0| while read -d $'\0' file
do
    #extension="${file##*.}"
    newfilename=$(echo "${file%.*}" | sed 's/\(.*\)_\(.*\)_/\1\2/')
    mv "$file" "$newfilename""_TIMING.jpg"
done

sed 's/$.*$_$.*$_/\1\2/') deletes the _ characters in the timestamp.

For example:

user@host$ ls -lart
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 6 user user 4096 Oct 21 10:21 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230014_5335.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231514_0814.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233014_5706.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234514_0896.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230114_5395.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231614_1145.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233114_6047.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234614_0547.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230114_5492.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231614_1264.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_233114_6146.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_234614_0658.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_230214_5630.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_20161018_231714_7135.jpg
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Oct 21 10:30 .

user@host$ find . -name "*.jpg" -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file
> do
>  newfilename=$(echo "${file%.*}" | sed 's/\(.*\)_\(.*\)_/\1\2/')
>  mv $file $newfilename"_TIMING.jpg"
> done

10:35:20 t $ ls -lart
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 6 user user 4096 Oct 21 10:21 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182300145335_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182315140814_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182330145706_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182345140896_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182301145395_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182316141145_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182331146047_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182346140547_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182301145492_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182316141264_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182331146146_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182346140658_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182302145630_TIMING.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    0 Oct 21 10:30 10.3.100.179_01_201610182317147135_TIMING.jpg
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Oct 21 10:35 .

J. Allan · Answer 6 · 2016-10-22T20:45:46.033

You're probably finished, but here's a (simple) all bash solution:
_{Is "simple ... bash solution" an oxymoron?}

#!/bin/bash

#loop through all files ending in .jpg
for f in *.jpg;
do

    #cut out everything to the timestamp
    firsthalf=${f%_*_*_*}

    #get from the timestamp on
    lasthalf=${f#*_*_}

    #remove (all) underscores from timestamp
    #note the 2 forward slashes...
    lasthalf=${lasthalf//_/}

    #get our extension
    ext=${lasthalf##*.}

    #now we can remove the extension
    lasthalf=${lasthalf%.*}

    #rename the file
    #change `mv` to `echo` if you want to do a trial run first...
    mv "$f" "${firsthalf}_${lasthalf}_TIMING.${ext}"

done;

PS: The logic in the loop was tested with one of your example filenames. It passed.

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 21 '16 at 15:18

If you could use GUI, I would recommend pyRenamer.

It's present in most distributions, f.i. in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install pyrenamer

It can do all you want and more.

It can use patterns, add or suppress text.
It can access to the EXIF data if renaming photos, so you can generate patterns based on date/time, etc...
Can use some metadata if renaming music files.
Moreover, it has a preview, which can prevent some mistakes difficult to revert.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 26 '16 at 07:52

Here's your raw built-in find + xargs + sed + mv oneliner (love oneliners):

find . -name "*.jpg" -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 sh -c 'for filename; do mv "$filename" $(echo "${filename}" | sed "s/\([0-9]\{8\}\)_\([0-9]\{6\}\)_\([0-9]\{4\}\)/\1\2\3_TIMING/g"); done' sh

Explanation:

find . -name "*.jpg" | sort | xargs sh -c <command> sh : list all JPEGs in the current directory then execute a shell command for each one (sorting is optional of course, but keep things a little cleaner if you are logging somewhere)
-print0, -z, -0 : it is good habit to separate items with binary 0 when tokenizing file names to avoid problems with in-the-middle white-spaces (not your case though)
mv "$filename" $(echo "${filename}" | sed "s/$[0-9]\{8\}$_$[0-9]\{6\}$_$[0-9]\{4\}$/\1\2\3_TIMING/g"); : (backslashes in the sed's regex do not help its readability, but it is simple) rename each file by replacing the underscore-separeted sequence of 8+6+4 digits with their contiguous concatenation plus this _TIMING thing (\i is a backreference to the i-th regex group).

Refs: Xargs - man sed

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