Replace file names with numbers — rename_with

Rename the files in the directory, replacing file names with numbers only.

rename_with_nums(dir = ".", pattern = NULL)

Arguments

dir: The directory in which to rename the files (relative or absolute path). Defaults to current working directory.
pattern: A regular expression. If specified, only files with names matching this pattern will be treated.

Value

A logical vector with a TRUE for each successful renaming and a FALSE otherwise.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
dir.create("RenameWithNums_test")
setwd("RenameWithNums_test")
files <- c("1litres 1.txt", "1litres 30.txt", "3litres 5.txt")
file.create(files)
rename_with_nums()
list.files()
setwd("..")
dir.remove("RenameWithNums_test")
}