Batch rename filenames to snake_case

tl;dr

1sudo apt install rename
2
3rename 's/ /_/g' *.{jpeg,jpg,png} | rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/'

1ls # get all filenames in the folder
2ls *.{jpeg,jpg,png} # get all .png, .jpg or .jpeg files
3awk '{ print tolower($0) }' # turn everything lowercase
4sed 's/ /_/g' # replace all spaces with underscores
5ls *.{jpeg,jpg,png} | awk '{ print tolower($0) }' | sed 's/ /_/g' # get all image filenames in snake_case in Terminal output

1ls

'Army vet poor children.jpg'
'British Us Warships.jpg'
'First time loving a soldier Here’s the 101 you need .docx'
'Get in shape military way .docx'
 LIVE
'Monday Motivation Posts_'
'Move over marvel, there’s a real Iron Man in town .docx'
'Prince Harry Green Caps.jpg'
'Prince Harry rewards Royal Marines with Green Berets as training ends  .docx'
'Recruitment taining 2019 things to keep in mind.jpg'
'Recruitment training 2019 things to keep in mind .docx'
'Titans comes together – US, British ships perform joint training.docx'
'Tornado goes out in style.docx'
'Tornado goes out in style.jpg'
'UK Defence Forces top the charts for LGBT empowerment .docx'
'UK defence forces LGBT top charts.jpg'
'Waste no excuse to tell your someone special how much you love them.png'
'Womens day.png'
'Writing the blues away.docx'
'Writing the blues away.jpg'
'amry vet runs for poor children .docx'
 army_military_married_love_hand-74014.jpg
 desktop.ini
'fitness army.jpg'
 uploaded

1ls *.{jpeg,jpg,png} | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sed 's/ /_/g'

ls: cannot access '*.jpeg': No such file or directory
army_vet_poor_children.jpg
british_us_warships.jpg
prince_harry_green_caps.jpg
recruitment_taining_2019_things_to_keep_in_mind.jpg
tornado_goes_out_in_style.jpg
uk_defence_forces_lgbt_top_charts.jpg
waste_no_excuse_to_tell_your_someone_special_how_much_you_love_them.png
womens_day.png
writing_the_blues_away.jpg
army_military_married_love_hand-74014.jpg
fitness_army.jpg

Loop it through and rename all image files..

 1#!/bin/bash
 2
 3# Bash script to convert 'An Image File Name.jpg' to 'an_image_file_name.jpg' (snake case)
 4
 5# Get all image files in the folder
 6# Turn the filenames lowercase
 7# Replace spaces with _
 8
 9for file in ./*.{jpg,jpeg,png}
10do
11cp "$file" "$(echo $file | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sed 's/ /_/g')"
12done

• the double quotes in cp "" "" are important

Using rename

1sudo apt install rename
2rename 's/ /_/g' *.{jpeg,jpg,png} | rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/'

• rename -n 's/ /_/g' *.{jpeg,jpg,png} to replace all spaces with underscores
• rename -n 'y/A-Z/a-z/' to lowercase everything
• | will basically take all the filenames generated by the first rename command and pipe them as input to the next rename command

1rename -n 's/ /_/g' *.{jpeg,jpg,png} | rename -n 'y/A-Z/a-z/'

rename(rename(Army vet poor children.jpg, Army_vet_poor_children.jpg), rename(army vet poor children.jpg, army_vet_poor_children.jpg))
rename(rename(British Us Warships.jpg, British_Us_Warships.jpg), rename(british us warships.jpg, british_us_warships.jpg))
rename(rename(Prince Harry Green Caps.jpg, Prince_Harry_Green_Caps.jpg), rename(prince harry green caps.jpg, prince_harry_green_caps.jpg))
rename(rename(Recruitment taining 2019 things to keep in mind.jpg, Recruitment_taining_2019_things_to_keep_in_mind.jpg), rename(recruitment taining 2019 things to keep in mind.jpg, recruitment_taining_2019_things_to_keep_in_mind.jpg))
rename(rename(Tornado goes out in style.jpg, Tornado_goes_out_in_style.jpg), rename(tornado goes out in style.jpg, tornado_goes_out_in_style.jpg))
rename(rename(UK defence forces LGBT top charts.jpg, UK_defence_forces_LGBT_top_charts.jpg), rename(uk defence forces lgbt top charts.jpg, uk_defence_forces_lgbt_top_charts.jpg))
rename(rename(Writing the blues away.jpg, Writing_the_blues_away.jpg), rename(writing the blues away.jpg, writing_the_blues_away.jpg))
rename(rename(Waste no excuse to tell your someone special how much you love them.png, Waste_no_excuse_to_tell_your_someone_special_how_much_you_love_them.png), rename(waste no excuse to tell your someone special how much you love them.png, waste_no_excuse_to_tell_your_someone_special_how_much_you_love_them.png))
rename(rename(Womens day.png, Womens_day.png), rename(womens day.png, womens_day.png))

• -n is for a dry run. to rename all file names in place omit this flag