Open Microsoft Excel on your windows computer.Ģ. So, let's follow the instructions below and change some names using excel on a windows machine.ġ. It doesn't matter if you need to change all filenames inside a folder or files with different file types or Extensions. After today you'll be renaming multiple files on windows pc within a blink of an eye. I'll create a rename shortcut to change the name of multiple files at once in excel using Visual Basic for Application (VBA).
And I'm damn sure you know that unless you wouldn't be here. If you know how to follow instructions, copy paste a few things, you are good to go. That's why I said you don't need any programming knowledge, not a bit.
But if you follow the instructions I'm about to share, step by step, you can do it even if it's your first day on excel, and that's a promise. Well, if you are willing to create this type of productive tool to change multiple filenames using excel by yourself, you'll have to be a pro excel user, that's for sure. I just said no programming skills required at the same time, I said it's an advanced excel tutorial. No programming skills or application needed. Even excel can handle these types of tasks if you know how to do it. Perhaps an application that every windows computer already has. What could be the most convenient solution? A solution that doesn't require programming skills or any new application that needs to be purchased or installed. And batch rename utility isn't a thing everyone has, let alone the price and the limitations. That's entirely possible, but the average pc user, mostly a Windows user, doesn't have the programming know-how. How are you planning to do this? Command Prompt or bulk rename utility? It doesn't matter what type of files you have it's the quantity that bothers you.
Suppose you are a photographer and you need to change the name of a thousand images for better sorting purposes or a bunch of pdf files or even a couple of hundreds of excel files. It's just the overwhelming number of files for them to retitle every now & then. They are skilled professionals like a financial analyst, a photographer, a writer, and many more. But I've seen people struggling while changing multiple filenames. If you are using a computer, you must've renamed files. You'll be able to change names with any file type like PDF, JPEG, Xlsx, etc.
Note: the ending ‘g’ in the regular expression means do the change globally, if you omit this it will replace the first space of each file with an underscore.In this advanced excel tutorial, you'll learn to rename multiple files at once from a folder. To append b_ prefix to txt files $ rename 's/^/b_/' *.txt $ ls b_1.txt b_2.txt b_3.txt Example: How to change/delete postfix of files $ ls 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt $ rename 's/$/\_bk/' *.txt $ ls b_1.txt_bk b_2.txt_bk b_3.txt_bk Example: How to replace spaces with underscores in filenames $ ls -l 'this is a file with spaces 1.txt' 'this is a file with spaces 3.txt' 'this is a file with spaces 2.txt' $ rename 's/ /\_/g' *.txt $ ls -l this_is_a_file_with_spaces_1.txt this_is_a_file_with_spaces_3.txt this_is_a_file_with_spaces_2.txt To remove a_ from txt files $ rename 's/^a_//' *.txt Rename used regular expressions to match filenames and change them, the general format of the command is: rename "regex" files Example: how to change the file extension $ rename 's/.txt/.txt_back/' *.txt Example: How to change/delete prefix of files $ ls a_1.txt a_2.txt a_3.txt It can however to rename the file as the destination parameter but since the ‘mv’ command its not made to to rename files its capabilities are limited when it comes to mass file operations, you cant do something like this: $ mv *.txt_back *.txt mv: target '*.txt' is not a directory The solution:īut Linux has almost solutions for everything, there is a very handy tool called ‘rename’, if the tool not installed you can install it (at least in a Debian based system) with the following command: $ sudo apt-get install rename How to use rename: Most of us when we want to rename files in Linux we use the ‘mv’ command, which its not really made to rename files but rather to move them to another directory.
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