Renaming a lot of variables in many Java classes at once

Question

I work in a pretty large Java-project (2500+ classes) that uses an old code standard where all member variables are prefixed with "m_" (e.g m_temperature). There is really no reason for this any longer and I'd like to get rid of them but:

1. In order to make the change I must do all variables at once.
2. It must not generate any bugs.

The first naive approach of simply renaming all the "m_variable" to just "variable" will not be sufficient as that could produce name collisions between an already existing variable named "variable", and the newly renamed one.

So, to sum up: How do I rename all these pesky member variablest without getting into trouble and are there any more problems than the one mentioned above?

Yes, I'm aware of the refactoring/renaming features within IDEs, please bear in mind that I want to do the changes to all variables matching the criteria at once and not by right-clicking on variables and renaming them one-by-one.

Answer 1

How about below from : mass renaming of java variables

by Simulant

click on the variable name.

1:press [alt] + [shift] + [R]

2:enter the new name.

3:press [enter] to confirm.

-->all instances of this variable will be renamed.