t.rename(1grass)

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💖 t.rename — the GRASS manual, but make it bestie ✨

okay so real talk, you're in the GRASS User's Manual (GRASS 8.5.0, for the record) and this little icon is t.rename from the temporal family. she's got one job and honestly? she eats. 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

t.rename — Renames a space time dataset 🦋

🔑 KEYWORDS 🔑

temporal, map management, rename, time ⏰

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

t.rename
t.rename --help
t.rename input=name output=name  [type=name]   [--overwrite]  [--help]
[--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

✨ Flags ✨

  • --overwrite — Let your output files just bulldoze whatever's already sitting there. yep, overwriting existing files, that's the vibe 🌈
  • --help — Prints the usage summary, aka the little cheat sheet when you're lost 🙈
  • --verbose — Verbose module output, she will NOT stop talking and honestly we love that for her 💬
  • --quiet — Quiet module output, she's giving silent but deadly (in a good way) 🤫
  • --ui — Force launches the GUI dialog, for when you want the pretty buttons instead of the terminal ✨

🧸 Parameters 🧸

  • input=name [required] — Name of the input space time dataset, like the name she has right now
  • output=name [required] — Name of the output space time dataset, aka what you're rebranding her to 👑
  • type=name — Type of the input space time dataset
    • Options: strds, stvds, str3ds
    • Default: strds

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So the way that t.rename works is: it renames space time datasets of different types — we're talking STRDS, STVDS, and STR3DS — and like, importantly, it also updates the space time dataset register entries of all the registered maps. no cap, the receipts are updated too 🧾✨

📝 NOTES 📝

heads up bestie: renaming of space time datasets works only for SQLite based temporal databases. that's it, that's the whole note. SQLite only, don't forget it 💀

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

okay so in this little demo a new vector space time dataset gets created, renamed, and then in the end removed. full circle moment fr fr 🦋

# Create new and empty STVDS
t.create type=stvds output=toberenamed semantictype=mean \
  title="Example to rename" \
  description="This is an example just to show how rename"
t.rename input=toberenamed output=newname type=stvds
t.remove input=newname type=stvds

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

t.create, t.support, t.register — go say hi to the rest of the squad 🫶

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Sören Gebbert, Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture — shoutout to the legend, thank you for your service 🫡💖

🧚 SOURCE CODE 🧚

Available at: t.rename source code (history)

Latest change: Thursday Dec 18 07:11:47 2025 in commit: cf870a5e49fd2643a55de543467edf5c2e61d640

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