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I'm after a way to batch rename files with a regex i.e.
s/123/onetwothree/g I recall i can use awk and sed with a regex but couldnt figure out how to pipe them together for the desired output.
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You can press and hold the Ctrl key and then click each file to rename. Or you can choose the first file, press and hold the Shift key, and then click the last file to select a group.
You can drag the cursor to select multiple with a box, or shift-click or Command-click the files, or in the Menu, select Edit then Select All. With the files selected, either right-click the selected files and select Rename, or go to File then Rename in the Menu.
To batch rename files, just select all the files you want to rename, press F2 (alternatively, right-click and select rename), then enter the name you want on the first file. Press Enter to change the names for all other selected files.
Rename multiple itemsOn your Mac, select the items, then Control-click one of them. In the shortcut menu, choose Rename. In the pop-up menu below Rename Finder Items, choose to replace text in the names, add text to the names, or change the name format.
You can install perl based rename utility:
brew install rename and than just use it like:
rename 's/123/onetwothree/g' * if you'd like to test your regex without renaming any files just add -n switch
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An efficient way to perform the rename operation is to construct the rename commands in a sed pipeline and feed them into the shell.
ls | sed -n 's/\(.*\)\(123\)\(.*\)/mv "\1\2\3" "\1onetwothree\2"/p' | sh If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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