bulkrename

The underlying design features a modular, dynamic approach to generating filenames and ships with a variety of specialized modules for renaming e.g. fonts or images, and more general ones - such as content-digests, simple counters or regex captures.

See the examples below, to get an idea of how everything works!

Usage

bulkrename -[vqc] [-l LIMIT] [-m MODULE ARGS] [-f FORMAT] [FILE [FILE..]]
bulkrename --help

Files are renamed in accordance with the given FORMAT string. If no FORMAT is specified, the output will exactly match the input. By default no action is taken and a list of planned changes is printed. Pass --commit to actually rename files.

In order to keep a good performance profile modules must be enabled explicitly to be used and some modules accept additional flags to control their output.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/4nickel/bulkrename
$ cd bulkrename
$ pip install --user -r requirements.txt

Modules

Module	Description	Arguments
hash	Content digest	--algorithm [md5|sha256]	Select algorithm
mime	Try to detect MIME type
number	Simple counter	--number N	Start counting from N
regex	Capture via regex	--regex REGEX	Regex to use
stat	Unix file stat command
image	Image dimensions
font	Font information

Formatting

default

Format	Description
name	Contains the original file name, without extension
ext	Contains the original extension. May be empty

hash

Format	Description
hash	The content digest

mime

Format	Description
mime	Best-effort guess of the MIME-type. May be incorrect!

number

Format	Description
number	The number N of the file

regex

The regex will be run against every file name. You can access any named capture group in the format string. Very flexible and powerful.

stat

Format	Description
mode	File mode
inode	Inode number
device	Device
nlink	Number of hardlinks
uid	User ID
gid	Group ID
size	Size in bytes
atime	Last accest time
mtime	Last modification time
ctime	Birth time

image

Format	Description
width	The width of the image file in pixels
height	The height of the image file in pixels
ratio	The ratio of width to height

Examples

Add prefix/suffix:

$ bulkrename -f 'prefix-{name}{ext}' -- ..files..
$ bulkrename -f '{name}-suffix{ext}' -- ..files..

Content digest - in this case the md5 algorithm is used:

bulkrename -m hash -a md5 -f '{hash}{ext}' -- ..files..

Incrementing counter - files are numbered in the order they appear as arguments:

bulkrename -m number '{number}{ext}' -- ..files..

Rename with regex:

bulkrename -m regex -r '(?P<capture>.*)' -f 'your.{capture}.here' -- ..files..

Fix mime types:

bulkrename -m mime -f '{name}{mime}' -- ..files..

Add mtime or other file stats:

bulkrename -m stat -f '{name}-{mtime}{ext}' -- ..files..

Image width and height:

bulkrename -m image -f '{name}_{width}x{height}{ext}' -- ..files..