The best ever I have found (for Windows).
It's free, it's fast and It's really a killer;  a must-have app !!

www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk

TheBigBoss

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Brian Ngure
<brian@mystique.boldlygoingnowhere.org> wrote:
> For those on Windows: http://www.1-4a.com/rename/
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Njoroge Tito <titonjoroge@gmail.com> wrote:
>> if on windows, there is a nifty tool called Total Commander, that has a
>> multi-rename facility, amoing many other uses.
>>
>> 2009/11/21 Bernard Owuor <b_owuor@yahoo.com>
>>>
>>> If you're in Linux, use:
>>>
>>> # rename 'y/\ /_/' *
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com>
>>> To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
>>> Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 2:20:49 AM
>>> Subject: [Skunkworks] if you ever need to rename 100+ files...
>>>
>>> I needed to quickly and painlessly rename some files by replacing spaces
>>> with underscores (_). Here's a quick and dirty python script that did it for
>>> me. I ran it from the python interpreter command-line (I didn't save the
>>> script to a file... lazy).
>>> ----- begin script-----
>>> import os
>>> for file in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
>>>      newname = "_".join(file.split())
>>>      os.rename(file, newname)
>>> ----- end script------
>>> It's a quick and dirty script so there's no error-handling of *any* sort.
>>> But that's trivial to add if you needed it.
>>>
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