KRename

KRename

Original author(s)	Dominik Seichter
Initial release	January 5, 2004 (2004-01-05)
Stable release	5.0.1 / October 5, 2020 (2020-10-05)
Repository	invent.kde.org/utilities/krename
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Batch renaming utility
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	https://userbase.kde.org/KRename

KRename is a KDE software that can be used for renaming multiple files and directories at one time. Many Linux distributions that use Plasma as the default desktop environment include the KRename software.

Features

• Rename both files and directories
• Rename all files in a directory recursively
• Ignore hidden files when renaming
• Case change: to UPPERCASE, to lowercase or to Only The First Letter
• Add prefix or postfix to filenames
• Search and replace parts of filenames (regular expressions are supported)
• Add ordered numbers to filenames (start, steps, skips definable)
• Change owner and permission of files
• Change access and modification date & time of files
• Deliver the renamed files to newly created directories (files per directory, numbering format of directories definable)
• Extract ID3 info from MP3/ogg files
• Extract Exif info from image files
• Add the current date and time to a filename
• Change file extensions
• Undo renaming
• Manual renaming of desired files
• Konqueror, Krusader, Dolphin integration
• Use JavaScript scripting
• Transliterate

External links

• The KRename KDE Userbase Wiki
• The source-code via SourceForge (old)
• The source-code via GitLab (current)
• The Official KDE informational page