Home README About Me Index RSS Search for: #site-navigation #navbar #masthead .entry-header Following on from the previous dired tips we can do much more in dired. A very powerful feature is that you can switch the dired buffer which lists the files into editable mode. Then you can directly edit file names, links and so on. Here we will look at using dired to rename multiple files in a nice visual way. Now we will use dired to rename multiple files at the same time. Suppose in some directory we have a bunch of files called test_foo_01.dat , test_foo_02.dat , etc and we wanted to rename them to replace foo with bar , then we would do the following: use C-x d to enter dired and choose the directory with the files in use C-x C-q to turn dired into editing mode. You can then edit the file names by hand or use M-% to replace foo with bar in the dired buffer....