SciencesPo (version 0.11.21)

rename.files: Rename files recursively

Description

Rename files in a directory with the same regex procedure.

Usage

rename.files(dir, pattern, replacement)

Arguments

dir

Path to directory for which you want to change the file names.

pattern

Pattern in file name to replace.

replacement

Text to replace pattern with.

Value

• Prints Done! to console when done; look at files in directory dir for changes.

encoding

UTF-8

Examples

# For example, a file name may have hyphen "-", 
# and you can replace them with underline "_".
rename.files("~/Desktop/mydata", "-", "_")