Mass Sequential Rename

This program can do the same thing as krename of KDE, for Nautilus in Gnome. It modifies selected files with sequential number.

#!/bin/bash
# Nautilus script for mass file renaming.
# Created by Ben(AT)Fadshop.net. http://benincampus.blogspot.com .Mar 29, 2009
# Based on http://jrfonseca.blogspot.com/2006/05/mass-renaming-in-nautilus.html

set -e

TITLE=`basename "$0"`

EXPR=""

EXPR=`zenity --title "$TITLE - expression" --entry --text "Specify the Prefix for modifying the filenames." --entry-text "$EXPR"` || exit

NUM=0


IFS=$'\n'
for FILE in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
do
cd "`dirname "$FILE"`"
filename=""`basename "$FILE"`""
EXT="${filename/*./}"

mv ""`basename "$FILE"`"" "$EXPR$NUM.$EXT"
NUM=$((NUM+1))

done

Create a new file ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Mass Sequential Rename with the content above and change it as executable. Then in Nautilus you can select several files and right click. In the context menu there is a Script->Mass Sequential Rename selection to run the script and rename the files.