EnameJS is a tiny javascript library for renaming files in a logical way.

Usage

var ename = require('ename');

ename.rename("funny.jpg", "un", true); 

//funny.jpg changed to un-funny.jpg

Installation

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry.

Before installing, download and install Node.js. Node.js.

Installation is done using the npm install command:

$ npm install ename

API

getFiles(dirname)

dirname

This is the directory in which you want to rename files.

protip: __dirname will get all the files of current directory.

This returns an array of file names of the directory specified.

Example:

var ename = require("ename");

console.log(ename.getFiles(__dirname));

//logs array of file names of this current directory through which this script is  running.

rename(filename, regex, boolean)

This will be used to rename a single file.

filename

This is the name of the file with extension.

Example: funny.jpg

regex

regex will be passed as a string it will automatically generate regex from that string. This regex will be tested over filename.

Example: "un" in funny.jpg

boolean

this boolean will determine whether you want to append that regex string before filename with hyphen of ignore this addition.

Example: Putting it all together

var ename = require("ename");

ename.rename("funny.jpg", "un", true);

//funny.jpg changed to un-funny.jpg

renameAll(files, regex)

files

The array of file names we got from getFiles method.

regex

regex will be passed as a string it will automatically generate regex from that string. This regex will be tested over all files.

Example: "un" in funny1.jpg & funny2.jpg

Get in Touch

• #ename on Gitter
• @lockround on Codementor

License

Copyright © 2017 Shubham Tiwari. This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the LICENSE.txt file. The documentation to the project is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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Made with ♥ by Shubham Tiwari (@lockround) and contributors