Ruby: Add a prefix to all files in a directory
I found myself looking for a way to rename all files in a directory by appending a prefix and couldn’t find a utility to do such a renaming after quick search so I wrote my own.
# Quick script to bulk prepend prefix to filenames to all files in a directory
# Also strips any spaces in the filename
# Example usage : ruby prepend_rename.rb Disc1_ C:\AudioBook\Disc1\
raise "Prefix and Directory are required" if ARGV.size < 2
prefix = ARGV[0]
dir = ARGV[1]
raise "Non-word character prefix #{prefix}" unless prefix =~ /^\w+$/
raise "No such directory: #{dir}" unless Dir.exists?(dir)
Dir.chdir(dir)
Dir.entries(dir).each do |file|
next if File.directory?(file)
new_name = prefix + file.gsub(/\s+/, '')
File.rename(file, new_name)
end
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