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 ...

One of OS X 10.10 Yosemite’s most useful new features — batch renaming in the Finder — has gone largely overlooked in the weeks since its release. In the past, you had to use a third-party utility, ...

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 ...

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 ...