I’ve been trying out Xfce/Xubuntu recently, and one thing I especially like is Thunar (the Xfce file manager)'s built-in bulk file rename utility. Gnome just added a similar feature in its latest release. Now I miss this ability in Caja.
I don’t want to switch to away from Caja when using MATE. Is there a good-standalone bulk-file renaming utility anyone can recommend?
I don’t often have a use for it, but pyrenamer is my choice. It’s in our sources.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check it out.
For others’ reference, Robert Tari has created and just announced a batch renaming extension for Caja, Caja Rename. I tried it and it integrates and works well.
Thanks for the heads-up, @elcste - looks interesting. I will test it once this bug has been resolved:
Renaming can replace files without warning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/cajarename/+bug/1675921
I use the trusty rename command in terminal. It has Perl expression support and a “dry run” option.
Package “rename”:
Perl extension for renaming multiple files
This package provides both a perl interface for renaming files
(File::Rename) and a command line tool 'rename' which is intended to
replace the version currently supplied by the perl package.Yes, I submitted that bug report after trying it out, and the developer is already working on a fix 
The fix is already out, that was fast 
Work has started on bringing Cajarename to the official Debian and Ubuntu archives.