How to perform name change for dozens of tags at the same time

[paul-griffith]

jq is (very) capable of smart structural edits of JSON files, such as tag exports, though extremely opaque:

How to create / append bulk tooltips via script with json export?

You can do it with jq (a downloadable command-line executable designed to manipulate JSON): walk( if type == "object" and .valueSource == "opc" then .tooltip = "TagName: \(.name) \(.opcItemPath)" else . end) https://jqplay.org/s/Pe6T7qNEFY I mostly copied this snippet from here:

I highly recommend LLMs to create JQ snippets you can then run en-masse.