On Saturday 27 December 2008 00:30, Rikishi 42 wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a application I can use under 10.3 to change the
>> name of large numbers of files in one go. I know that there are a huge
>> number of such apps for windows so I was wondering if there were any
>> good ones for linux.
>
> I’ve been messing with a Python script I wrote, but I’d have to dig it
> out and tidy it up.
Update: I dug out the stuff I had, and rebuilt a first working script.
Still a bit of a mess, but it renames 15 images per sec. That puts the
treatment of your 14.000 images at about 15:30 min, on my machine.
Now, I prefer to work on a copy, for obvious reasons.
I also like to move the renamed files to an output dir. That means my
script can stop (or fail) and be restarted at any time, without renaming
a file twice. It also means files that can’t be handled stay in their
place.
What I did:
- I made a linked copy of the originals:
cp -vrl originals/* work_source/
- The dir “work_source/” is searched for any file containing Exif tags.
A date/time stamp is added before the original name.
The result is moved to “work_output/”, under the original subdirs.
- Files that are not renamed, stay in “work_source/”.
So a file:
work_source/Marius/DSC00017.JPG
work_output/Marius/20071026_133756__DSC00017.JPG
You could even imagine regrouping all 14000 pictures in 1 dir, using the
script to rename them, before sorting them in a dir per day.
I have to clean this up a bit, as the script only converts 1 file. That
means running it it with a find. I’d rather Python did all the work,
might speed things up a bit.
If this is something you’d like to try, I’ll finish cleaning it up this
WE. Otherwise, it’ll be much later (as my pictures are very well filed,
of course. (not 
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and runs from a terminal. Type “man rename” on