Re: How to change file names?
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- Subject: [mg70853] Re: How to change file names?
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:39:55 -0400 (EDT)
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Use Rename.
Suppose your files are in a given directory. Then set the directory
containing the files to the current directory. For my case on Mac OS X
I would evaluate
SetDirectory["/Users/brian/Desktop/BGHtestFolder"]
Here is a list of file names
ls=FileNames[]
{BGH1.jpg,BGH2.jpg,.DS_Store}
Note the DS_Store is a file crated by the Mac OS X for each directory.
In the Rename operation below I delete this file from the list to be
renamed
Then I use Rename
Map[RenameFile[#,StringReplace[#,"jpg"->"JPEG"]]&,Drop[ls,-1]]
{BGH1.JPEG,BGH2.JPEG}
Cheers,
Brian
solidifire wrote:
> There are n JPEG files, with file names f1, f2, ..., fn.
> I want to change their names to, for example, g1, g2, ..., gn.
> Of course the easiest way is to change file names by myself,
> but this is not convenient when n is large.
> How should I do by using Mathematica?
> I tried:
>
> Export["g1.jpg",
> Import["f1.jpg", "JPEG"], "JPEG"]
>
> It does change the file name as I expect.
> There is, however, a side effect:
> somehow the file size in bytes of g1.jpg is one-tenth of that of
> f1.jpg.
> Besides, I have to read in the files and then write out the files
> -- I don't think these two steps are really necessary,
> because all I want to do is to change the file names.
> Is there any better method?
> Thank you in advance.