DirMv is a little script that recursively renames files in a directory. I just made this for myself.
You can use npx if you like,
$ npx dirmv <directory> <search> <replace>
or you can install it globally.
$ [sudo] npm i -g dirmv
Sometimes I find that I need to sudo when installing npm packages
It's easy. Just specify the directory to recursively scan, the Regular Expression to search for, and its replacement text. All searches are case-sensitive
$ dirmv /var/www/html/img gelat[oi] ice-cream
This will pore over /var/www/html/img and wherever it matches "gelato" or "gelati" in the filename, it will change it to "ice-cream", so
| Old Filename | New filename |
|---|---|
| gelato_sm.png | ice-cream_sm.png |
| gelati_lg.png | ice-cream_lb.png |
| Gelati_sm.png | Gelati_sm.png |
The last one didn't get renamed because the search is case-sensitive.
If you are a fan of npx, never fear. The thing was never installed on your machine in the first place! If you did install it globally, it's easy to reverse that.
$ [sudo] npm uninstall -g DirMv
Ta-da!
- I made this super quick. It won't rename directories. Just files. It doesn't have running indices, so you can't, like, get files to be renamed
file001.jpg,file002.jpg, etc unless they're being renamed fromoldfile001.jpg,olffile002.jpg, etc.
I've got a GitHub. It's got an Issues board. I accept pull requests.
I made this under the MIT license. Cos it's super easy for anyone to recreate, really.