Mass Renaming in Nautilus

One can easily add new actions in Nautilus context menu by adding shell scripts to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts . Below is a script for mass file renaming, using Perl's rename utility and zenity. Add it to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Mass Rename.

#!/bin/sh
# Nautilus script for mass file renaming

set -e

TITLE=`basename "$0"`

# Path to perl's rename
RENAME=/usr/bin/rename


rename_all() {
        IFS=$'\n'
        for FILE in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
        do
                cd "`dirname "$FILE"`"
                "$RENAME" "$@" "$EXPR" -- "`basename "$FILE"`"
        done
}


EXPR="s///"
while true
do
        EXPR=`zenity --title "$TITLE - expression" --entry --text "Specify the Perl expression for modifying the filenames." --entry-text "$EXPR"` || exit

        rename_all -n | sed -e 's/^\(.*\) renamed as \(.*\)$/\2\n\1/' | zenity --list --width 800 --height 600 --title  "$TITLE - Preview" --text "" --column "New name" --column "Old name" && break
done

rename_all

Here are some screenshots:

The latest version of this script can be found here.