I have several folders of pictures from my digital camera. Unfortunately,
they're named stuff like "001.jpg", "002.jpg" within each folder.
So, let's say there was a folder called "dogs", and a folder called "kids"
there would be images named "001.jpg", "002.jpg" in both. Naturally, if I
was to merge both folders together, it just wouldn't work. I'd either need
to overwrite some (thus losing them), not merge files with duplicate names,
or manually rename them.

So, here's the question. Is there any way to bulk rename these files? I'm
open to all ideas, be it desktop app or web script.

TIA


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On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:35:11 GMT, Karl Groves put finger to keyboard
and typed:

>I have several folders of pictures from my digital camera. Unfortunately,
>they're named stuff like "001.jpg", "002.jpg" within each folder.
>So, let's say there was a folder called "dogs", and a folder called "kids"
>there would be images named "001.jpg", "002.jpg" in both. Naturally, if I
>was to merge both folders together, it just wouldn't work. I'd either need
>to overwrite some (thus losing them), not merge files with duplicate names,
>or manually rename them.
>
>So, here's the question. Is there any way to bulk rename these files? I'm
>open to all ideas, be it desktop app or web script.

This simple PHP script should do it:

foreach (glob("*/*.jpg") as $filename) {
$newname = str_replace("/","",$filename);
mv($filename,$newname);
}

That will rename all your files in the form

dogs/001.jpg
dogs/002.jpg
kids/001.jpg
kids/002.jpg

to this:

dogs001.jpg
dogs002.jpg
kids001.jpg
kids002.jpg

thus resulting in unique filenames formed from the previous directory
names and image names.

Mark
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:35:11 +0000, Karl Groves wrote:

> I have several folders of pictures from my digital camera. Unfortunately,
> they're named stuff like "001.jpg", "002.jpg" within each folder.
> So, let's say there was a folder called "dogs", and a folder called "kids"
> there would be images named "001.jpg", "002.jpg" in both. Naturally, if I
> was to merge both folders together, it just wouldn't work. I'd either need
> to overwrite some (thus losing them), not merge files with duplicate names,
> or manually rename them.
>
> So, here's the question. Is there any way to bulk rename these files? I'm
> open to all ideas, be it desktop app or web script.
>
> TIA

If you are on *nix and have the rename command (most do), you can use
something like:

rename 's/\.jpg/DOG\.jpg/' *.jpg

Just do a
man rename
for details.

"Karl Groves" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
news:Xns98D1614BD5D56karlkarlcorecom@199.45.49.11. ..
>I have several folders of pictures from my digital camera. Unfortunately,
> they're named stuff like "001.jpg", "002.jpg" within each folder.
> So, let's say there was a folder called "dogs", and a folder called "kids"
> there would be images named "001.jpg", "002.jpg" in both. Naturally, if I
> was to merge both folders together, it just wouldn't work. I'd either need
> to overwrite some (thus losing them), not merge files with duplicate
> names,
> or manually rename them.
>
> So, here's the question. Is there any way to bulk rename these files? I'm
> open to all ideas, be it desktop app or web script.
>

I use acdsee to arrange and rename. It does series as well as individual
files of course.

On 8 Feb, 14:35, Karl Groves <k...@NOSPAMkarlcore.com> wrote:

> So, here's the question. Is there any way to bulk rename these files?

Learn some simple Unix shell scripting. With a little practice you'll
be writing shell one-liners that do this very easily.

If you're on Windows, first install Cygwin and then see step #1

Karl Groves <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message:
Xns98D1614BD5D56karlkarlcorecom@199.45.49.11,

> I have several folders of pictures from my digital camera.
> Unfortunately, they're named stuff like "001.jpg", "002.jpg" within
> each folder.
> So, let's say there was a folder called "dogs", and a folder called
> "kids" there would be images named "001.jpg", "002.jpg" in both.
> Naturally, if I was to merge both folders together, it just wouldn't
> work. I'd either need to overwrite some (thus losing them), not merge
> files with duplicate names, or manually rename them.
>
> So, here's the question. Is there any way to bulk rename these files?
> I'm open to all ideas, be it desktop app or web script.
>
> TIA

http://www.irfanview.com/

It's free and it does lots of stuff, including bulk rename
--
Red

"Red E. Kilowatt" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> http://www.irfanview.com/
>
> It's free and it does lots of stuff, including bulk rename

"FREEWARE (for non-commercial use)"

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

:
:

"IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial
use (that means at home)."


<http://www.irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm>

I am sure this is non-commercial use, but in general IrfanView is not
free.

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On 2007-02-08, mbstevens wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:35:11 +0000, Karl Groves wrote:
>
>> I have several folders of pictures from my digital camera. Unfortunately,
>> they're named stuff like "001.jpg", "002.jpg" within each folder.
>> So, let's say there was a folder called "dogs", and a folder called "kids"
>> there would be images named "001.jpg", "002.jpg" in both. Naturally, if I
>> was to merge both folders together, it just wouldn't work. I'd either need
>> to overwrite some (thus losing them), not merge files with duplicate names,
>> or manually rename them.
>>
>> So, here's the question. Is there any way to bulk rename these files? I'm
>> open to all ideas, be it desktop app or web script.
>>
>> TIA
>
> If you are on *nix and have the rename command (most do), you can use
> something like:
>
> rename 's/\.jpg/DOG\.jpg/' *.jpg

Note that there at least two different versions of rename, and the
syntax differs.

## Move files from all subdirectories into current directory
## renaming if necessary
for f in */*.jpg
do
nf=${f##*/} ## strip path information
suff=
while [ -f "$nf${suff:+_$suff}" ] ## if the file exists
do
suff=$(( ${suff:-0} + 1 ))
done
mv "$f" "$nf${suff:+_$suff}"
done

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John Bokma <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message:
Xns98D1739B2E2A3castleamber@130.133.1.4,

> "Red E. Kilowatt" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>
>> http://www.irfanview.com/
>>
>> It's free and it does lots of stuff, including bulk rename
>
> "FREEWARE (for non-commercial use)"
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>>
>>
>
> "IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private,
> non-commercial use (that means at home)."
>
>
> <http://www.irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm>
>
> I am sure this is non-commercial use, but in general IrfanView is not
> free.

Picky. Picky.

OK, Freeware for non-commercial use. However, in practice these
conditions are impossible to enforce.
It would be better for him to say that it's freeware, but that all
donations are cheerfully accepted.
--
Red

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> On 2007-02-08, John Bokma wrote:
>> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>>
>> [ IrfanView ]
>>
>>> It is also only available for Windows.
>>
>> I am sure there are programs available for *insert your favourite OS*
>> that can do the renaming thing :-)
>
> Of course there are; I posted one here.

:-D.

I would probably use Perl ;-)

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