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• Reference
  • Rename/move files matching the EXTENDED_GLOB pattern srcpat to corresponding files having names of the form given by dest.
  • srcpat contains parentheses surrounding patterns which will be replaced in turn by $1, $2, … in dest.
  • Any error (a substitution results in an empty string, two substitutions give the same result, the destination was an existing regular file and -f was not given) causes the entire function to abort without doing anything.
  • -n for a dry run.
  • -v for verbose.
  • -w to implicitly add parenthesis for all wildcard patterns in srcpat.
  • -W
    • implicitly add parenthesis for all wildcard patterns in srcpat (i.e. -w), and
    • turn wildcards in dest to references like ${1}, ${2}, etc.
  • -i for an interactive "yes/no" for each rename.
  • -C to force cp.
  • -M to force mv.
  • -L to force ln.
• zmv (zsh wiki),
• Lots of examples

Snippets

# For example, rename all the avi files to replace _ by
# simple spaces, replace '.' by simple spaces lowercase
# the filename, and capitalise the first letter of each
# words :

zmv '(*).avi' '${${(LC)1//./ }//_/ }.avi'


# If you want case insensitivity pattern matching you
# can add (#i) at the begining of the first sentence for
# exemple
#
# All files having for extenstions .avi or .Avi or .AVI
# or etc. will match and will be renamed as previously.

zmv '(#i)(*).avi' '${${(LC)1//./ }//_/ }.avi'