rename: batch renames filenames

rename is a cli program to change filenames to a list of files.

It can search for regexp and change them by others. First do a dry run:

rename -n ‘s/\(//g’ $1; rename -n ‘s/\)//g’ $1; rename -n ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ $1; rename -n ‘s/ /./g’ $1; rename -n ‘s/\.-\./-/g’ $1; }

and if everything is alright, the execute it:

rename ‘s/\(//g’ $1; rename ‘s/\)//g’ $1; rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ $1; rename ‘s/ /./g’ $1; rename ‘s/\.-\./-/g’ $1; }