experimental

FileRenamer

Simple bulk file renaming tool.

https://rubygems.org/gems/file_renamer

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'file_renamer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install file_renamer

Usage

From terminal

filerenamer [options]
-d --dir (optional)
-p --prefix (optional)
-e --extension (optional)
-n --name (required)
  • Use --dir key to specify directory where you want script to be ran (not required in terminal version)

IMPORTANT!
If no --dir passed to parameters, directory where script where executed will be proceed.

  • Use --name key to specify new_name for the files that should be renamed

First will be named new_name, second - new_name_1, third - new_name_2 etc.

  • Use --prefix key to specify prefix for the filenames that should be renamed

If file passed to --prefix and directory contains 3 files: file1, file2, picture3 Only file1 and file2 will be renamed, picture3 will stay untouched.

  • Use --ext key to specify file extension for the filenames that should be renamed

If jpg(dot is not required) passed to --ext and directory contains 3 files: file1.txt, file2.jpg, picture3.jpg Only file2.jpg and picture3.jpg will be renamed, file1.txt will stay untouched.

IMPORTANT! - If no prefix neither extension passed to the script EVERY file in directory will be renamed, except directories.

HINT: - You can mix --ext and --prefix to concretize conditions

In your project

FileRenamer::Renamer.rename!(params)

where

  • params[:dir] - for execution directory (required)
  • params[:prefix] - for filename's prefixes
  • params[:ext] - for filename's extensions
  • params[:name] - for filename's new names (required)

Development

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

TODO: extension change

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/file_renamer/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

Spec

rake spec_all

in project folder to run all specs

License

MIT License.

2020 Tee Zed