Renaming folders is very easy. I have a folder with subdirectories named from 1 to 9. And I wish to rename them folder1 to folder9. This can be easily done with bash.
This example will take care of this problem easily.
4.4 Fri Jan 31 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ for i in $(seq 9);do mv $i folder$i;done |
The $(seq 9); value is how many folders are to be renamed.
Another good way to rename files is with a GUI. A plugin for Caja can help with this task.
Install it like this.
Renaming a batch of files in Caja with a plugin.
This works very well, the preview updates as you type, so you can see how it will affect the files before committing your changes. This is a very nice addition to your Linux Mint or Ubuntu MATE desktop and automates a lot of tasks if you are not the best at shell scripting.