We use wildcards, such as ‘*’, ‘?’ and ‘‘, to match one or more arbitrary characters. In the above example, the first parameter ( a*) is the 'from' pattern and the second parameter is 'to' pattern ( b#1).Īs per the above example, mmv will look for any filenames staring with letter 'a' and rename the matched files according to second parameter i.e 'to' pattern. $ lsĪs you can see, all files starts with letter "a" (i.e a1.txt, a2.txt, a3.txt) are renamed to b1.txt, b2.txt, b3.txt. Let us check if the files have been renamed or not. To rename all files starting with letter "a" to "b", simply run: $ mmv a\* b\#1 Of course, you can do this manually in few seconds.īut just think if you have hundreds of files and want to rename them? It is quite time consuming process. Now you want to rename all files that starts with letter "a" to "b". Let us say, you have the following files in your current directory. To install mmv on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Pop OS, run the following command: $ sudo apt-get install mmv It is available in the default repositories of Debian-based systems. The mmv utility is used to move, copy, append and rename files in bulk using standard wildcards in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. I will keep updating the list if I come across any new method in future. As of writing this, I am aware of 8 different ways to batch rename files. There could be many commands and utilities to a bulk rename bunch of files. There are a few other utilities available to batch rename files in Linux. What would you do if you wanted to rename multiple files at a time? Worry not! It can do a LOT more than the built-in File Explorer, e.g.But, the mv command won't support batch renaming files at once. You don't need to create a batch script to rename, you can do it with a few clicks. You can even use ReGEx (regular expressions) to look for patterns. You can also easily add leading zeros to your file names. With Total Commander you can also extract full path names for files, add a prefix or suffix to your files, and even how to extract a range of characters from your file names. It also has a bulk rename utility feature. Total Commander is a shareware file manager for Windows.
Got multiple files you need to rename, but don’t want to go through them each one by one? In this tutorial you'll learn how to use Total Commander to rename multiple files at once with different names.
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