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I want to rename multiple files at once. For example:
Picture1.jpg
Picture2.jpg
Picture3.jpg
Picture4.jpg
into
Vacation-Picture1.jpg
Vacation-Picture2.jpg
Vacation-Picture3.jpg
Vacation-Picture4.jpg
I am quite familiar with the terminal, if there is no app which is quite good in renaming files.
You can use an Automator Workflow.
Something like this:
Sort Finder Items step will sort image names descending (IMG_0003.jpg, IMG_002.jpg, IMG_001.jpg).
Make Sequential step will rename them sequentially (IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg, ...).
Copy Finder Items step is optional, just to be sure not to mess with original files.
For example save this file as filenames.txt:
apple
banana
orange
Then run:
a=($(<filenames.txt));for d in *;do i=0;for f in $d/*;do echo mv $f $d/${a[i++]}.jpg;done;done
Remove echo if the output looks right.
If the file names contain spaces, add IFS=$'\n'; to the start and add double quotes around the variables.
Best Answer
Try something like this:
(open terminal and add one line {press Enter} at a time.)
What that does is uses the variable file for each entry matching
Picture*.jpg. Then it takes the file or folder and moves it to be prefixed with "vacation".Hope that helps