Multiple files rename

Multiple file rename is only available in Ant Commander Pro file manager

Note that the extension is not included when renaming multiple files. Use rename extension action for that.

How to rename files?

• In a table with file, choose File -> Rename multiple files
• Select the files you want to rename
• If not files are selected, all listed files will be used
• Just perform a find / replace for what you want to change in the files names
• Note that file extension is not including in the rename, use File -> Rename extension for it

Advanced rename files

You can use regular expression with the Reg Exp button to perform for advanced rename.

Rename	Find	Replace	Examples
Prefix files	^	prefix-	image001.jpg -> prefix-image001.jpg
Suffix files	$	-suffix	image001.jpg -> image001-suffix.jpg
Groups	([a-zA-Z]+)(\d+)	$1-$2	image001.jpg -> image-001.jpg
Use file name	.+	$0-test	image001.jpg -> image001-test.jpg

More about regular expression pattern here</a>

Note: Do NOT use .* but .+ to match the file name in the regular expression

If no groups are created in the regular expression with parenthesis, only $0 can be used to represent the text matching the regular expression

Special replacement

• %DIRNAME% Use the parent directory name
• %DIRNAME:-x% Use the xth parent of the file directory (e.g. %DIRNAME:-2% this/is/a/test/file.txt would output ‘is’)
• %DIRNAME:x% Use the xth child to the file from the base directory (e.g. %DIRNAME:3% this/is/a/test/file.txt would output ‘a’)
• %DATE:yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm.ss% Use the file last modified date/time in the name. See Date Time Patterns

Special replacement will work with regular expression on and off.

Rename with directory changes

By default multiple rename will use the file name without the extension.

If in the Find the ‘/’ character is used, the relative path is used instead.
e.g. if test/file.txt is selected, Find test/ Replace with test- will move the file to test-file.txt in the base directory.

If in the Replace with field the ‘/’ character is used, the output will consired it as a folder specification.
e.g. if Invoice-Company-12345.pdf is selected, Find Invoice-([A-Za-z]+)- (Reg Exp) Replace with $1/$0 will move the file to Company/Invoice-Company-12345.pdf.

Special changes

Use Special rename multiple files action to replace based on:

• Truncate file name to a maximum number of character
• Change the case of the file name (e.g. to lowercase)
• Add a counter at the end of the file

• Remove accents and diacritics in file names

  Note that if you want to remove all specific non-ascii characters, you can do a find \p{M} replace with nothing in the regular multi-rename tool with regular expression enabled.

• File mapping

  The mapping should be in the form of Filename1->NewName1;Filename2->NewName2;…

  You can click on the edit button next to the field to make it easier to enter the mapping.

  In the edit text field you can use tabs as separator between old filename and new filename to it makes it easier to import the mapping from Excel or another table tool.