Rename files based on folder name

Did you check metamorphose? It's a software to rename files. But it's not a script, so if you need to automatize everything, that's maybe not a solution.

You can find a .deb here:
http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the tip. I installed that but I don't think it will do what I want - at least I don't see how. I'm betting there is a CLI command or sequence of commands that will do what I want. I just don't know what it would be.

Here is the other one to try. This one goes thought a folder with multiple folders and gets the images out of there.

http://downloads.nerdynick.org/files/Python/rename2.tar.gz

Thanks NerdyNick, that solved my question.

Oops, should have marked the second link as that's the one that did the trick. Anyway, thanks for the help Nick. You are a python god.

Thank you NerdyNick! This was exactly what I was looking for!

I know this is an old question, but I thought I should mention there is a stock utility to do this, called "rename". It renames files based on regular expressions. Here is an example of renaming files based on directory names... First, I made some directories with similar files:

> mkdir a b c
> touch {a,b,c}/{1,2,3}

Then, I renamed them. (run once with "-n" (dry run) to make sure it will work, then again with "-v" (verbose) to actually make the changes)

> rename -v 's/(.*)\/(.*)/$1_$2/;' */*
a/1 renamed as a_1
a/2 renamed as a_2
a/3 renamed as a_3
b/1 renamed as b_1
b/2 renamed as b_2
b/3 renamed as b_3
c/1 renamed as c_1
c/2 renamed as c_2
c/3 renamed as c_3

You can also do it with a shorter command, just by replacing slashes with underscores:

> rename -v 's|/|_|;' */*

Details on the syntax are here:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html

Thank you Selene but the command:

>rename -v 's|/|_|;' */*

causes the contents of the folder be renamed to the folders name but the content is moved out of its original folder and into the pwd because the path is changed. The command below places the content in the original folder by keeping its path the same.

>rename -v 's/(.*)\/(.*)/$1\/$1_$2/;' */*

eli555, thanks for the update. It will likely be useful for some of the dozens of people notified about this question.

However, I think the goal of the original question was to move and rename the files into their parent directory. :)

My apologies Selene, I didn't read the question throughly. Hope the command aids someone out there.