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kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 2,473

[SOLVED] Tool to rename files via $EDITOR?

Help,
i'm sure i've installed (probably from tha aur) it in the past by reading a comment on this forum, but now i just can't remember the name and my package list and history files are just too big to search through.

Anybody can help?
Thanks!

Last edited by kokoko3k (2015-01-03 19:50:00)

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progandy

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Re: [SOLVED] Tool to rename files via $EDITOR?

I believe vidir (moreutils) and qmv (renamutils) are a match for your description.

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tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] Tool to rename files via $EDITOR?

Doesn't make sense to me - why would you need an editor to rename files?

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Tool to rename files via $EDITOR?

There's also massren, though it's flagged out of date in the AUR.  Github site: https://github.com/laurent22/massren

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Tool to rename files via $EDITOR?

vidir!
Thanks progandy.

@Tomk, you should try it, any editor with a search and replace function may act as a mass renamer for filesystem files.
Treating files just as line of a text file may come very handy sometimes.

Last edited by kokoko3k (2015-01-03 19:51:10)

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