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Mass renaming files on macOS using the "rename" command
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| # Install it with Homebrew. | |
| brew install rename | |
| # Replace "oldstring" with "newstring" with files in the current directory. | |
| rename -s oldstring newstring * | |
| # Do the same thing, but recursively. | |
| rename -s oldstring newstring **/* |
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