Is rclone support batch renaming

eelalzep · February 21, 2025, 5:45am

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I want to renaming bacth files on my koofr

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kapitainsky · February 21, 2025, 5:58am

The best way IMO is to use rclone mount and then whatever tool you like.

Out of the box it is not supported today unless you are happy to experiment. Have a look here:

github.com/rclone/rclone

Bulk renaming using --files-from ?

opened 01:16PM - 14 Feb 25 UTC

garibafdo

#### The associated forum post URL from `https://forum.rclone.org` #### What …is the problem you are having with rclone? I want to rename files on a remote in bulk. For eg: google drive has a 100 files like ```` a.1.txt a.2.txt a.3.txt .. ```` which I want to change to ```` b.1.txt b.2.txt b.3.txt .. ```` Currently I run a 100 rclone commands one-by-one (````rclone moveto a.1.txt b.1.txt```` etc) In other rclone commands (delete/copy/move etc), "bulk" behaviour is available efficiently using just a single command using the --files-from flag Is there some way of using --files-from (twice, once for the orignal names, then for the new names?) to efficienly rename files in bulk ? #### What is your rclone version (output from `rclone version`) 1.69.0 #### Which OS you are using and how many bits (e.g. Windows 7, 64 bit) linux,x64 #### Which cloud storage system are you using? (e.g. Google Drive) google drive #### The command you were trying to run (e.g. `rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp`) ````rclone moveto gd://<old-name> gd://<new-name>```` #### How to use GitHub * Please use the 👍 [reaction](https://blog.github.com/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/) to show that you are affected by the same issue. * Please don't comment if you have no relevant information to add. It's just extra noise for everyone subscribed to this issue. * Subscribe to receive notifications on status change and new comments.

LeoW · February 25, 2025, 9:41am

Hi,

Microsoft power toys has a bulk file renaming utility only it's a gui so it doesn't work as a batch file but its great for renaming files.

Otherwise I would recommend using copilot to assist you in creating a Powershell script.