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Simple python utility that renames files in bulk using regex
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import os | |
import sys | |
import argparse | |
import re | |
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Rename some files.") | |
parser.add_argument("path", type=str, help="Path to work on.") | |
parser.add_argument("text", type=str, help="Text to replace with.") | |
parser.add_argument("-e", "--enumerate", action="store_true", dest="enumerate", help="Add a number at the end of a file name.") | |
parser.add_argument("-r", "--regex", dest="regex", help="Runs all filenames against provided regex, then changes matches (if any) to provided text.", default="[\s\S]*") | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
args = vars(parser.parse_args()) | |
prog = re.compile(args["regex"]) | |
for num, file in enumerate(os.listdir(args["path"])): | |
#Make sure we don't overwrite ourselves | |
if file != os.path.basename(__file__): | |
repl = args["text"] + str(num) if args["enumerate"] else "" | |
old_name = os.path.join(args["path"], file) | |
new_name = os.path.join(args["path"], re.sub(prog, repl, file)) | |
print("Renaming {} to {}".format(old_name, new_name)) | |
os.rename(old_name, new_name) |
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