GPRename

Infobox_Software
name = GPRename


caption = Screenshot
latest_release_version = 2.6
latest_release_date = July 10, 2008
operating_system = Linux, BSD and Unix-like operating systems
genre = Batch renaming utility
license = GPL-3
website = http://gprename.sourceforge.net

GPRename is a complete batch renamer for files and directories. Coded in GTK2-Perl, it is an easy-to-use graphical tool that any *nix variant can easily run as long as Perl is installed. No compilation is required. Just extract the tarball, execute 'make install' and run the application.

Features

* Rename both files and directories
* Case change: to UPPERCASE, to lowercase or Only The First Letter
* Insert or delete text at a position
* Replace text with the options of case sensitive or regular expression
* Rename with numbers (001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg...)
* Automatically trim double spaces to one space, also trim leading and/or trailing spaces around the name
* Multilangual : Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Deutsch, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Spanish

History

GPRename is one more example proving that the open source concept in collaboration with the SourceForge website works extremely well.

The program was initially created by the user Tristesse. Another user, Zurd, liked it very much but found and reported a bug he hoped would be fixed. After ten months without response from the author, Zurd found the problem himself, fixed it and offered a patch, but again there was no response, and users could not benefit from the patch since it was not part of the official release. Finally Zurd requested and was granted developer status from SourceForge for the GPRename project. Thus the project was brought back to life, and no lines of code were lost.

At the start of 2007, GPRename has been ported from the deprecated GTK-Perl to the new GTK2-Perl and in mid 2007 the new 2.4 release is now GPL-3.

External links

* [e-mail] Mailing list
* http://gprename.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gprename SVN