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In computing, rename is to reassign the identifying value (or name) of an object, whether it be files, folders or other types of data.

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Renaming Linux files that accidentally have multiple .mp3 extensions

I screwed up and accidentally have a bunch of files with the extension .mp3.mp3.mp3.mp3 How can I change these, recursively—and over multiple directories—to set them to just .mp3?
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DOS command to rename with part of the original file name

I have many files named like this: YYY.XXXXXX and i need to write a DOS batch command to rename like this: YYYXXXXXX.ZZZ YYY and ZZZ are fixed string, only XXXXXX is variable. tried this with no success: rename YYY.?????? YYY??????.ZZZ
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Rename lots of files in one click

Is there any application that can rename lots of files which have the same name in them with different numbers. For example. I want to rename, File 01.avi and File 02.avi up to File 100.avi. Into 01.avi, 02.avi. How do I do that?In windows or…
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File rename with same pattern

I have a folder with a lot of picture of people. The pattern of the files are different it can be NAME_Firstname or NAME Firstname. I want to set all the files with name_firstname. Is there another way of doing that than to modify them one by one?
Simon M.
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How to rename a file as a same folder name it is in?

I have a file C:\dir1234\text.pdf. Need to rename that file as "dir1234_text.pdf". How can I do it? I have hundreds of directories with a similar names as "dir1234" containing one file each named "text.pdf". My guess is I need a for-next loop to go…
Yury Belogorodsky
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In Bulk Rename Utility, how can I delete text in middle?

Pls see screen shot beneath. You can't see it now, but there are seven files with "Copy" in middle.
user269574
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Accidentally renamed File in "/usr/sbin"

History wont work, since it happend in a GUI. The content of the File is: #!/bin/sh -e if test $# -eq 0 then echo usage: $0 shellname [shellname ...] exit 1 fi file=/etc/shells # I want this to be GUARANTEED to be on the same filesystem as…
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rename all file names in a directory

I have say 100 files all with the same text I want to replace with something else. For example, I have the file names: blahtest blah-yes blahokay blahcool I want to replace blah with mytext. Is there any way to do that? All files are different too,…
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Change files from x#.jpg to x###.jpg

I have a bunch of files x1.jpg, x2.jpg, x3.jpg, etc. that need to be named x001.jpg, x002.jpg, x003.jpg, etc. How can I do this? Edit: I'm running windows but have cygwin installed.
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How to rename collection of pictures after adding new pictures between, including previous descriptions

For example, I have a bunch of pictures in a folder, named daddy_garden filename daddy_garden001.jpg daddy_garden002.jpg ... daddy_garden057.jpg daddy_garden058.jpg ... With my program 'Where Is It' I created to most of my…
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How do I rename a file with a "\" in the filename?

I backed up a PS2 memory card to an SD card a couple months ago. I'm currently backing it up to my PC but there's some files that are either too long or have forward slashes in the filenames. Is there any way I can rename these files?
ENunn
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win 10 home how to rename my home directory and account login

I want to rename my win 10 account with my initials. When installed Win 10 created my account with my initials but appended to extra characters. This is different from my other accounts on my network and all other machines I use. I tried to rename…
Gerald Stephenson
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How can Bulk Rename Utility automatically select next file down, after I renamed current highlighted file?

I use Bulk Rename Utility 3.0.0.1. After I click 'Rename', the file I just renamed remains highlighted! How I order Bulk Rename Uility automatically select the next file below?
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How to arrange files according to rename date?

I tried more things Date modified,Date Accessed & Date created etc, but none arranges the files according to rename date. How to arrange files according to rename date ?
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