To rename a group of files with a single command, use the rename command. It requires the use of regular expressions and can tell you what changes will be made before making them. For decades, Linux ...

When I was preparing inline graphics—the little images embedded in a line of text—for my Take Control of Numbers book, I was almost finished when I remembered that the filenames needed to adhere to a ...

At some point in time, a lot of us might have come across a situation where we find the need to rename multiple files at once. Be it images, videos, apps, or even PDFs, renaming every single file ...

Say I had a script to take on-line backups of a database (in my case Citrix data store in Access format) and I wanted to script the renaming of the file to include the current date (and possibly ...

Every now and then I come across a file that just doesn’t display properly in a file listing. In fact, it can be a little tricky to determine the name of a file that contains odd characters. You might ...