Rename Multiple Files in GNOME

Renaming your photos downloaded off of a digital camera to something relevant can be quite a chore, especially if you have hundreds of pictures to rename. If you’re running a GNOME desktop environment on your Linux machine, Nautilus and Purrr makes this an easy task.

First off, we’ll need to install the Purrr application, which is a GUI application that will allow you to rename multiple files at once with a slew of options to modify the naming conventions. Run the following command in your terminal:

sudo aptitude install purrr

Once Purrr has been installed, navigate to the files you wish to rename, select the files, then drag and drop them into a Purrr window. If you want to rename pictures with a numeric offset, use this as your naming template:

BeachPictures_[C,100].[E]

This will rename all files selected to BeachPictures_100.JPG, BeachPictures_101.JPG, BeachPictures_102.JPG, and so on, and so forth.