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    File renaming program

    I want to be able to rename a number of files in a directory en masse.

    Is there any software out there that could help with this (freeware, shareware or commercial software)?

    Ideally, I want to be able to tell the software to search for a pattern in a filename and replace that pattern with another pattern.

    An example of what I want to be able to do:

    Image1.tif --> Seattle1.tif
    Image2.tif --> Seattle2.tif
    . . .
    Imagen.tif-->Seattlen.tif

    I can do the renames manually but there are hundreds of files.

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    I use Bulk File Renamer (incredibly powerful and free)

    http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php
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    Thanks guys. I tried the BatchRenamer and it did the job. Saved me a bit of typing!

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    If you have perl installed, it provides a rename utility, that is very powerfull if you know perl

    The syntax is:
    Code:
    rename '<perl expresson>' <list of files>
    eg:
    rename 's/Image/Seattle/g' *.tif
    Obvoulsy if you don't have perl, or have never programed in it before, it is probably to much effort.

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    For renaming like you want, you can use windows. Highlight some files, right click and then click rename. You type something and all files will have a (1), (2) after them etc.

    So if you selected 3 files and renamed them photo you would get

    photo.jpg
    photo (1).jpg
    photo (2).jpg

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    YOU CAN DO IT IN CMD PROMPT

    my boss showed me how to do it, pretty much same as perl way, but in dos syntax.
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