# Rename multiple files in the folder with Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rename-multiple-files-in-the-folder-with-julia/57976>\
**Category:** Data\
**Tags:** filesystem\
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rename-multiple-files-in-the-folder-with-julia/57976 "2021-03-25T22:35:15Z")\
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You can get a list of file names using `readdir`. From there you can iterate over all the files and call `mv` to rename them.

```julia

files = readdir()
txt_files = filter(endswith(".txt"),files)
for (i,file) in enumerate(txt_files)
   mv(file,"$(i).txt")
end

```

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