Rename many files at once
Select the files in Finder, right-click, and choose Rename — you can replace text, add text, or give them all one name with a number. For patterns Finder can’t do, a short Terminal loop renames each file in order.
Without Terminal
- Select the files in Finder.
- Right-click → Rename…
- Choose Format, type a name like "holiday", and Finder numbers them: holiday 1, holiday 2…
In one command
In Terminal, inside the folder, number every JPG as holiday-1, holiday-2…:
n=1; for f in *.jpg; do mv -n "$f" "holiday-$n.jpg"; n=$((n+1)); donemv -n never overwrites an existing file, so a clash is skipped rather than lost. Try it on a copy of the folder first.
Or just ask Titan
Rename the photos in this folder to holiday-1, holiday-2 and so on.Do it with Titan
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