krename broken?

[tomcloyd]

When I launch krename, then click the Add Files button, it displays a modal window and then loops, and I can never select a directory where the files I want to rename can be found. I did a purge and re-install and got exactly the same result.

I tried the alternative in the packages - Gwenrename or something like that - and it comes nowhere near the power of krename, and doesn't appear to do what I need to do.

QUESTIONS:

1. Is anyone else able to get krename to run? I see no complaints about this in the forums, but I also have no idea why it won't run for me.

2. I want to remove N characters from the beginning of a set of file names in a directory with a lot of files. Is there other way to do this that doesn't require me to be a regular expression guru?

[DoYouKubuntu]

I don't think I've ever used krename--I do stuff like this at a command line. So, to answer your question:

2. I want to remove N characters from the beginning of a set of file names in a directory with a lot of files. Is there other way to do this that doesn't require me to be a regular expression guru?

This is easily done at a prompt, and YOU don't need to be a regular expression guru! Just let us know the details, such as: is it the same number of characters for each file name? what would an original name and a revised name look like?

[SteveRiley]

If you run krename from a console, then click the Add button, do any error messages appear in the console window?

I just installed it here and can't replicate the problem you're seeing.

Alternately, you can do this at the command line:

for FILE in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f); do mv $FILE ${FILE:[i]M[/i]}; done

Where M is N+2. If you need to remove the first 8 characters, then M is 10. This is because the output of find includes ./ at the beginning of each file name. maxdepth instructs the command not to descend into subdirectories. -type f instructs the command to match only files, not subdirectories.

Alternately, you could run

rename 's/^.{[i]N[/i]}//' *

Where N is N. Here, * matches everything, including subdirectories. You could narrow this down a bit, of course.

[Rog132]

Picking directories - at here(*)

1) With the Ctrl

Press the Ctrl key while clicking the folder.



2) With the mouse

Paint the wanted folders.




More of the mouse use: http://askubuntu.com/questions/32792...n-in-one-step/


3) With the context menu from the KDE file manager


Right click the folder and pick the KRename service menu...







=> At here(*), the folder/file picking is working.


(*)

:~$ krename -v
Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.13.3
KRename: 4.0.9

[oshunluvr]

Works fine here, just like Rog, but I never launch it first. I always use the servicemenu.