Bulk renaming made easy with Thunar bulk renamer

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Source Bulk renaming made easy with Thunar bulk renamer

To many Thunar is just a file manager. But if you've played around with it you know it is much, much more. You may remember my previous article “Create custom actions with the Thunar file manager” which shows you one method of extending the application. There is one extra tool that comes with Thunar which is the Bulk Renamer. The Bulk Renamer is a Thunar plug-in that allows you to handle batch renames with a very simple, user-friendly GUI.
The Thunar Bulk renamer can:

• Insert/Overwrite file names
• Add various forms of numbering
• Remove characters
• Search/Replace
• Change Uppercase/Lowercase

The Thunar Bulk Renamer only handles basic renaming. If you are looking for a more complex renaming tool you can look into writing an additional module for Thunar (see the Thunar Extension Framwork Reference Manual for more information.) But for simple bulk renaming – this tool can't be beaten.