You just never know what can and will happen, so always make a backup. There are great detailed instructions in his article – the first step being to make a backup of the items you’re going to run the tool on. I also have some written instructions below the video. I thought I’d do a quick video on how the tool works.
In it Nik D’Agostino has a link to the Bulk Rename Utility as well as instructions on running PowerShell scripts to extract older data you may not want to migrate. Recently, I was on LinkedIn and doing a search on ‘OneDrive for Business’, just to see what kinds of articles are out there and I found this article called ‘Flawlessly Migrate Thousands of Files/Folders’. We didn’t know how many files were affected and it would be extremely time consuming to have someone open and go through all the folders. We found out that OneDrive for business will not sync any files with these characters in them – they call them ‘invalid characters’: \ / : * ? “ # %. My client wanted to move many thousands of files and folders from his server to OneDrive for Business. Possible solution with Perl rename: find /mydir -depth -type f -exec rename -v 's/(.If you’ve ever had a project in front of you where you needed to go through huge numbers of computer files and rename them or search for a particular word or symbol and replace them quickly, then the Bulk File Rename Utility is for you. In general, see also: How can i find and rename multiple files Perl's Getopt::Long module supports this and is used by rename. Hence, to rename -the-file-name to the-file-name: rename 's/-//g' -the-file-name Many commands, including Perl's rename script, support a double-dash to denote the end of a command's options. I've just created a separate Perl-rename package on Github: Using the perl-based rename command to change filenames commencing with dashes Same goes for the manpage when installed to /usr/local/share/man/man1/. If you install the Perl-rename to /usr/local/bin it will have precedence over rename from util-linux. And I remember the Perl-rename having worked there sometimes. I'll have a look on my company laptop on Monday. The same problem has been bugging me on Cygwin, which is a Red Hat product, so should be more similar to Fedora.
/etc/alternatives/rename is a symlink to /usr/bin/prename./usr/bin/rename is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/rename.The actual rename command works via the /etc/alternatives mechanism, whereby /usr/bin/rename.ul from the util-linux package (hence the.Get the Perl rename utility instead of the built-in rename
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