We all have a folder full of images whose filenames resemble line noise. How about renaming those images with the help of a local LLM (large language model) executable on the command line? All that ...

Restore order to your file system. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac It’s easy to rename multiple files at once on a Mac using the Finder’s batch rename tool. If you have a big series of pictures, ...

When I was preparing inline graphics—the little images embedded in a line of text—for my Take Control of Numbers book, I was almost finished when I remembered that the filenames needed to adhere to a ...

Say I had a script to take on-line backups of a database (in my case Citrix data store in Access format) and I wanted to script the renaming of the file to include the current date (and possibly ...