Batch Renaming of Files in a Directory

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Is there an easy way to rename a group of files already contained in a directory  using Python   Example    I have a directory full of   doc files and I want to rename them in a consistent way      X doc -   new X  doc       Y doc -   new Y  doc

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Try  http   www mattweber org 2007 03 04 python-script-renamepy      I like to have my music  movie  and   picture files named a certain way    When I download files from the   internet  they usually don   t follow my   naming convention  I found myself   manually renaming each file to fit my   style  This got old realy fast  so I   decided to write a program to do it   for me       This program can convert the filename   to all lowercase  replace strings in   the filename with whatever you want    and trim any number of characters from   the front or back of the filename    The program s source code is also available

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I have this to simply rename all files in subfolders of folder  import os  def replace fpath  old str  new str       for path  subdirs  files in os walk fpath           for name in files              if old str lower   in name lower                     os rename os path join path name   os path join path                                              name lower   replace old str new str      I am replacing all occurences of old str with any case by new str

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I prefer writing small one liners for each replace I have to do instead of making a more generic and complex code  E g    This replaces all underscores with hyphens in any non-hidden file in the current directory  import os  os rename f  f replace       -    for f in os listdir      if not f startswith

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I had a similar problem  but I wanted to append text to the beginning of the file name of all files in a directory and used a similar method  See example below   folder   r R  mystuff GIS Projects Website 2017 PDF   import os   for root  dirs  filenames in os walk folder     for filename in filenames        fullpath   os path join root  filename        filename split   os path splitext filename    filename will be filename split 0  and extension will be filename split 1       print fullpath     print filename split 0      print filename split 1      os rename os path join root  filename   os path join root   NewText 2017     filename split 0    filename split 1

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Try  http   www mattweber org 2007 03 04 python-script-renamepy      I like to have my music  movie  and   picture files named a certain way    When I download files from the   internet  they usually don   t follow my   naming convention  I found myself   manually renaming each file to fit my   style  This got old realy fast  so I   decided to write a program to do it   for me       This program can convert the filename   to all lowercase  replace strings in   the filename with whatever you want    and trim any number of characters from   the front or back of the filename    The program s source code is also available

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directoryName    Photographs  filePath   os path abspath directoryName  filePathWithSlash   filePath         for counter  filename in enumerate os listdir directoryName         filenameWithPath   os path join filePathWithSlash  filename       os rename filenameWithPath  filenameWithPath replace filename  DSC                 str counter  zfill 4      jpg        e g  filename    photo1 jpg   directory    c  users Photographs            The string replace call swaps in the new filename into    the current filename within the filenameWitPath string  Which       is then used by os rename to rename the file in place  using the     current  unmodified  filenameWithPath     os listdir delivers the filename s  from the directory   however in attempting to  rename  the file using os    a specific location of the file to be renamed is required     this code is from Windows

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I ve written a python script on my own  It takes as arguments the path of the directory in which the files are present and the naming pattern that you want to use  However  it renames by attaching an incremental number  1  2  3 and so on  to the naming pattern you give   import os import sys    checking whether path and filename are given  if len sys argv     3      print  Usage   python rename py  lt path gt   lt new name extension gt       sys exit      splitting name and extension  name   sys argv 2  split      if len name   lt  2      name append     else      name 1       s   name 1     to name starting from 1 to number of files  count   1    creating a new folder in which the renamed files will be stored  s     s pic folder    sys argv 1  try      os mkdir s  except OSError        if pic folder is already present  use it      pass  try      for x in os walk sys argv 1            for y in x 2                 creating the rename pattern              s     spic folder  s s s    x 0   name 0   count  name 1                 getting the original path of the file to be renamed              z   os path join x 0  y                renaming              os rename z  s                incrementing the count              count   count   1 except OSError      pass   Hope this works for you

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If you don t mind using regular expressions  then this function would give you much power in renaming files   import re  glob  os  def renamer files  pattern  replacement       for pathname in glob glob files           basename  os path basename pathname          new filename  re sub pattern  replacement  basename          if new filename    basename              os rename                pathname                os path join os path dirname pathname   new filename     So in your example  you could do  assuming it s the current directory where the files are    renamer    doc   r        doc    r new  1  doc     but you could also roll back to the initial filenames   renamer    doc   r  new          doc   r  1 doc     and more

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Such renaming is quite easy  for example with os and glob modules   import glob  os  def rename dir  pattern  titlePattern       for pathAndFilename in glob iglob os path join dir  pattern            title  ext   os path splitext os path basename pathAndFilename           os rename pathAndFilename                     os path join dir  titlePattern   title   ext     You could then use it in your example like this   rename r c  temp xx   r   doc   r new  s      The above example will convert all   doc files in c  temp xx dir to new  s  doc  where  s is the previous base name of the file  without extension

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Be in the directory where you need to perform the renaming    import os   get the file name list to nameList nameList   os listdir     loop through the name and rename for fileName in nameList      rename fileName 15 28      os rename fileName rename   example   input fileName bulk like  20180707131932 IMG 4304 JPG  output renamed bulk like  IMG 4304 JPG

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as to me in my directory I have multiple subdir  each subdir has lots of images I want to change all the subdir images to 1 jpg   n jpg  def batch rename        base dir    F  ad samples test samples       sub dir list   glob glob base dir              print sub dir list   like that   F  dir1    F  dir2       for dir item in sub dir list          files   glob glob dir item       jpg           i   0         for f in files              os rename f  os path join dir item  str i      jpg                i    1    mys own answer https   stackoverflow com a 45734381 6329006

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This code will work  The function exactly takes two arguments f patth as your path to rename file and new name as your new name to the file   import glob2 import os   def rename f path  new name       filelist   glob2 glob f path      ma       count   0     for file in filelist          print  File Count      count          filename   os path split file          print filename          new filename   f path   new name   str count   1      ma          os rename f path filename 1   new filename          print new filename          count   count   1

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directoryName    Photographs  filePath   os path abspath directoryName  filePathWithSlash   filePath         for counter  filename in enumerate os listdir directoryName         filenameWithPath   os path join filePathWithSlash  filename       os rename filenameWithPath  filenameWithPath replace filename  DSC                 str counter  zfill 4      jpg        e g  filename    photo1 jpg   directory    c  users Photographs            The string replace call swaps in the new filename into    the current filename within the filenameWitPath string  Which       is then used by os rename to rename the file in place  using the     current  unmodified  filenameWithPath     os listdir delivers the filename s  from the directory   however in attempting to  rename  the file using os    a specific location of the file to be renamed is required     this code is from Windows

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I have this to simply rename all files in subfolders of folder  import os  def replace fpath  old str  new str       for path  subdirs  files in os walk fpath           for name in files              if old str lower   in name lower                     os rename os path join path name   os path join path                                              name lower   replace old str new str      I am replacing all occurences of old str with any case by new str

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Such renaming is quite easy  for example with os and glob modules   import glob  os  def rename dir  pattern  titlePattern       for pathAndFilename in glob iglob os path join dir  pattern            title  ext   os path splitext os path basename pathAndFilename           os rename pathAndFilename                     os path join dir  titlePattern   title   ext     You could then use it in your example like this   rename r c  temp xx   r   doc   r new  s      The above example will convert all   doc files in c  temp xx dir to new  s  doc  where  s is the previous base name of the file  without extension

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Be in the directory where you need to perform the renaming    import os   get the file name list to nameList nameList   os listdir     loop through the name and rename for fileName in nameList      rename fileName 15 28      os rename fileName rename   example   input fileName bulk like  20180707131932 IMG 4304 JPG  output renamed bulk like  IMG 4304 JPG

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If you don t mind using regular expressions  then this function would give you much power in renaming files   import re  glob  os  def renamer files  pattern  replacement       for pathname in glob glob files           basename  os path basename pathname          new filename  re sub pattern  replacement  basename          if new filename    basename              os rename                pathname                os path join os path dirname pathname   new filename     So in your example  you could do  assuming it s the current directory where the files are    renamer    doc   r        doc    r new  1  doc     but you could also roll back to the initial filenames   renamer    doc   r  new          doc   r  1 doc     and more

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If you don t mind using regular expressions  then this function would give you much power in renaming files   import re  glob  os  def renamer files  pattern  replacement       for pathname in glob glob files           basename  os path basename pathname          new filename  re sub pattern  replacement  basename          if new filename    basename              os rename                pathname                os path join os path dirname pathname   new filename     So in your example  you could do  assuming it s the current directory where the files are    renamer    doc   r        doc    r new  1  doc     but you could also roll back to the initial filenames   renamer    doc   r  new          doc   r  1 doc     and more

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Try  http   www mattweber org 2007 03 04 python-script-renamepy      I like to have my music  movie  and   picture files named a certain way    When I download files from the   internet  they usually don   t follow my   naming convention  I found myself   manually renaming each file to fit my   style  This got old realy fast  so I   decided to write a program to do it   for me       This program can convert the filename   to all lowercase  replace strings in   the filename with whatever you want    and trim any number of characters from   the front or back of the filename    The program s source code is also available

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Such renaming is quite easy  for example with os and glob modules   import glob  os  def rename dir  pattern  titlePattern       for pathAndFilename in glob iglob os path join dir  pattern            title  ext   os path splitext os path basename pathAndFilename           os rename pathAndFilename                     os path join dir  titlePattern   title   ext     You could then use it in your example like this   rename r c  temp xx   r   doc   r new  s      The above example will convert all   doc files in c  temp xx dir to new  s  doc  where  s is the previous base name of the file  without extension

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This code will work  The function exactly takes two arguments f patth as your path to rename file and new name as your new name to the file   import glob2 import os   def rename f path  new name       filelist   glob2 glob f path      ma       count   0     for file in filelist          print  File Count      count          filename   os path split file          print filename          new filename   f path   new name   str count   1      ma          os rename f path filename 1   new filename          print new filename          count   count   1

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I had a similar problem  but I wanted to append text to the beginning of the file name of all files in a directory and used a similar method  See example below   folder   r R  mystuff GIS Projects Website 2017 PDF   import os   for root  dirs  filenames in os walk folder     for filename in filenames        fullpath   os path join root  filename        filename split   os path splitext filename    filename will be filename split 0  and extension will be filename split 1       print fullpath     print filename split 0      print filename split 1      os rename os path join root  filename   os path join root   NewText 2017     filename split 0    filename split 1

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Such renaming is quite easy  for example with os and glob modules   import glob  os  def rename dir  pattern  titlePattern       for pathAndFilename in glob iglob os path join dir  pattern            title  ext   os path splitext os path basename pathAndFilename           os rename pathAndFilename                     os path join dir  titlePattern   title   ext     You could then use it in your example like this   rename r c  temp xx   r   doc   r new  s      The above example will convert all   doc files in c  temp xx dir to new  s  doc  where  s is the previous base name of the file  without extension

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If you don t mind using regular expressions  then this function would give you much power in renaming files   import re  glob  os  def renamer files  pattern  replacement       for pathname in glob glob files           basename  os path basename pathname          new filename  re sub pattern  replacement  basename          if new filename    basename              os rename                pathname                os path join os path dirname pathname   new filename     So in your example  you could do  assuming it s the current directory where the files are    renamer    doc   r        doc    r new  1  doc     but you could also roll back to the initial filenames   renamer    doc   r  new          doc   r  1 doc     and more

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If you would like to modify file names in an editor  such as vim   the click library comes with the command click edit    which can be used to receive user input from an editor  Here is an example of how it can be used to refactor files in a directory   import click from pathlib import Path    current directory direc to refactor   Path         list of old file paths old paths   list direc to refactor iterdir       list of old file names old names    str p name  for p in old paths     modify old file names in an editor    and store them in a list of new file names new names   click edit   n  join old names   split   n      refactor the old file names for i in range len old paths        old paths i  replace direc to refactor   new names i     I wrote a command line application that uses the same technique  but that reduces the volatility of this script  and comes with more options  such as recursive refactoring  Here is the link to the github page  This is useful if you like command line applications  and are interested in making some quick edits to file names   My application is similar to the  bulkrename  command found in ranger

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Try  http   www mattweber org 2007 03 04 python-script-renamepy      I like to have my music  movie  and   picture files named a certain way    When I download files from the   internet  they usually don   t follow my   naming convention  I found myself   manually renaming each file to fit my   style  This got old realy fast  so I   decided to write a program to do it   for me       This program can convert the filename   to all lowercase  replace strings in   the filename with whatever you want    and trim any number of characters from   the front or back of the filename    The program s source code is also available

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If you would like to modify file names in an editor  such as vim   the click library comes with the command click edit    which can be used to receive user input from an editor  Here is an example of how it can be used to refactor files in a directory   import click from pathlib import Path    current directory direc to refactor   Path         list of old file paths old paths   list direc to refactor iterdir       list of old file names old names    str p name  for p in old paths     modify old file names in an editor    and store them in a list of new file names new names   click edit   n  join old names   split   n      refactor the old file names for i in range len old paths        old paths i  replace direc to refactor   new names i     I wrote a command line application that uses the same technique  but that reduces the volatility of this script  and comes with more options  such as recursive refactoring  Here is the link to the github page  This is useful if you like command line applications  and are interested in making some quick edits to file names   My application is similar to the  bulkrename  command found in ranger

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I ve written a python script on my own  It takes as arguments the path of the directory in which the files are present and the naming pattern that you want to use  However  it renames by attaching an incremental number  1  2  3 and so on  to the naming pattern you give   import os import sys    checking whether path and filename are given  if len sys argv     3      print  Usage   python rename py  lt path gt   lt new name extension gt       sys exit      splitting name and extension  name   sys argv 2  split      if len name   lt  2      name append     else      name 1       s   name 1     to name starting from 1 to number of files  count   1    creating a new folder in which the renamed files will be stored  s     s pic folder    sys argv 1  try      os mkdir s  except OSError        if pic folder is already present  use it      pass  try      for x in os walk sys argv 1            for y in x 2                 creating the rename pattern              s     spic folder  s s s    x 0   name 0   count  name 1                 getting the original path of the file to be renamed              z   os path join x 0  y                renaming              os rename z  s                incrementing the count              count   count   1 except OSError      pass   Hope this works for you

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another regex version    usage example     replacing an underscore in the filename with today s date    rename files      output                CSV      g lt 1 gt  20180402  g lt 3 gt    def rename files path  pattern  replacement       for filename in os listdir path           if re search pattern  filename               new filename   re sub pattern  replacement  filename              new fullname   os path join path  new filename              old fullname   os path join path  filename              os rename old fullname  new fullname              print  Renamed      old fullname     to     new fullname

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another regex version    usage example     replacing an underscore in the filename with today s date    rename files      output                CSV      g lt 1 gt  20180402  g lt 3 gt    def rename files path  pattern  replacement       for filename in os listdir path           if re search pattern  filename               new filename   re sub pattern  replacement  filename              new fullname   os path join path  new filename              old fullname   os path join path  filename              os rename old fullname  new fullname              print  Renamed      old fullname     to     new fullname

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I prefer writing small one liners for each replace I have to do instead of making a more generic and complex code  E g    This replaces all underscores with hyphens in any non-hidden file in the current directory  import os  os rename f  f replace       -    for f in os listdir      if not f startswith

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as to me in my directory I have multiple subdir  each subdir has lots of images I want to change all the subdir images to 1 jpg   n jpg  def batch rename        base dir    F  ad samples test samples       sub dir list   glob glob base dir              print sub dir list   like that   F  dir1    F  dir2       for dir item in sub dir list          files   glob glob dir item       jpg           i   0         for f in files              os rename f  os path join dir item  str i      jpg                i    1    mys own answer https   stackoverflow com a 45734381 6329006

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