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Original author(s)
  
Dominik Seichter

Written in
  
C++

Development status
  
Current

Operating system
  
Linux (with KDE)

KRename

Initial release
  
January 5, 2004 (2004-01-05)

Stable release
  
4.09 / January 1, 2012; 5 years ago (2012-01-01)

KRename is a KDE software that can be used for renaming multiple files and directories at one time. Many Linux distributions that use Plasma as the default desktop environment include the KRename software.

Features

  • Rename both files and directories
  • Rename all files in a directory recursively
  • Ignore hidden files when renaming
  • Case change: to UPPERCASE, to lowercase or Only The First Letter
  • Add prefix or postfix to filenames
  • Search and replace parts of filenames (regular expressions are supported)
  • Add ordered numbers to filenames (start, steps, skips definable)
  • Change owner and permission of files
  • Change access and modification date & time of files
  • Deliver the renamed files to newly created directories. (files per directory, numbering format of directories definable)
  • Extract ID3 info from MP3/ogg files
  • Extract Exif info from image files
  • Add the current date and time to a filename
  • Change file extensions
  • Undo renaming
  • Manual renaming of desired files
  • Konqueror, Krusader, Dolphin integration
  • Use JavaScript scripting
  • Transliterate
  • References

    KRename Wikipedia