It has different options of action, which together may come close to those of the Windows tool.

Selecting multiple files in Thunar and selecting 'rename' opens the tool, but it can also be started separately. If any additional information is required, just ask.Īnyone willing to help out an old man in his dotage has my eternal thanks. There is the Bulk Rename utility, which is part of Thunar, the default file manager of XFCE desktop environment (the one used by Xubuntu). Batch rename files by replace old text with new text. Maintaining the time and date of the file created/file modified/file accessed would be nice, but not required. In the section below, I’ll show 2 examples of how to do batch rename files which are: Section Download & Run Bulk Rename Utility. I really want the correctly named files to end up in their original directory. The date/time are not consistent from file to file, and the file names generally have letters, numbers, and spaces as a part of the file name. The ~7k files contained within these directories have been appended with the date/time of the last backup: 59664976 (2018_04_14 12_56_22 UTC), where 59664976 is the file name that I want to keep, and (2018_04_14 12_56_22 UTC) is what I want to delete - along with the space preceding the ( open parenthesis.

I have no problems at all with the directories - no changes desired. I ended up with a parent directory, and many sub- and sub-sub-directories within parent.

I had a Win10 file restore go haywire on me. First of all, I will admit to being frequently outwitted by inanimate objects.

Bulk rename utility example