KRename

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.^{[citation needed]}

KRename

Original author(s)	Dominik Seichter
Initial release	January 5, 2004 (2004-01-05)
Stable release	5.0.1 / October 5, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-10-05)^[1]
Repository	invent.kde.org/utilities/krename
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Batch renaming utility
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	https://userbase.kde.org/KRename

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 to 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

External links

• The KRename KDE Userbase Wiki
• The source-code via SourceForge (old)
• The source-code via GitLab (current)
• The Official KDE informational page

References

1. "Version 5.0.1". 5 October 2020.