Resolved Bulk rename files according to a text file

[NewUsername]

I want to be able to bulk rename files according to a text file. Right now, I still need to use Windows for that, where I use Bulk Rename Utility.

So the idea is as follows: I have OrigName1.ext and OrigName2.ext in a folder and I want to rename them to NewName1.ext and NewName2.ext. For Bulk Rename Utility I can make a text file like this:

OrigName1.ext|NewName1.ext
OrigName2.ext|NewName2.ext

Afterwards, I import this text file in Bulk Rename Utility and do all the renaming in one click.

Is there a Mac application that does the same thing?

 

[giffut]

Name Mangler should do anything you want regarding renaming tasks. You can find it in the app store.

 

[Mr.Blacky]

I`m surely misunderstanding something, but can't you do that already in Finder?

 

[Slartibart]

make a backup of your files.

open a terminal window.

check wether you made a backup of your files.

Run in the terminal the following command:

#!/usr/bin/env bash cd /patch/to/your/files while read -r line; do mv $line done < /path/to/list-with-old-and-new-names.txt

the file list-with-old-and-new-names.txt is a plain text file which contains the names:

new1 old1 new2 old2 new3 old3 usw.

EDIT: long shift… I might have missread the OP completely. If the new-name-part/pattern is for all selected files the same, you can just use the finder as @chabig suggests.

 

[chabig]

I`m surely misunderstanding something, but can't you do that already in Finder?

If it as described in the original post, this is easy in the Finder. Select the files, right click, and choose “rename”.

 

[NewUsername]

make a backup of your files.

open a terminal window.

check wether you made a backup of your files.

Run in the terminal the following command:

#!/usr/bin/env bash cd /patch/to/your/files while read -r line; do mv $line done < /path/to/list-with-old-and-new-names.txt

the file list-with-old-and-new-names.txt is a plain text file which contains the names:

new1 old1 new2 old2 new3 old3 usw.

EDIT: long shift… I might have missread the OP completely. If the new-name-part/pattern is for all selected files the same, you can just use the finder as @chabig suggests.

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for! However, when I try it out it doesn’t seem to work…

 

[Slartibart]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for! However, when I try it out it doesn’t seem to work…

please remove the shebang line and execute line by line in the terminal:

cd /path/to/your/files/ while read -r line; do mv $line done < /path/to/list-with-old-and-new-names.txt

just saw that the order of names is different in your file, so:

cd /path/to/your/files/ while read -r line; do mv $(awk '{print $2, $1}' <<<$line) done < /path/to/yourfilenamelist.txt.txt

EDIT: make sure that the file with the old and new filenames is a plain text file, only a single tab seperated newname from oldname in this file, filenames do not include spaces.

 

[NewUsername]

please remove the shebang line and execute line by line in the terminal:

cd /path/to/your/files/ while read -r line; do mv $line done < /path/to/list-with-old-and-new-names.txt

just saw that the order of names is different in your file, so:

cd /path/to/your/files/ while read -r line; do mv $(awk '{print $2, $1}' <<<$line) done < /path/to/yourfilenamelist.txt.txt

EDIT: make sure that the file with the old and new filenames is a plain text file, only a single tab seperated newname from oldname in this file, filenames do not include spaces.

Thanks a lot, this works perfectly!!!