On 09/11/18 03:46 AM, [email protected] wrote: > August Schwerdfeger (2018-Nov-08, excerpt): >> Can anybody recommend any good batch-renaming packages? > > The most flexible tool to do this on Linux is your shell.
+1 Well actually +BIGNUM This is the most general, most flexible, most powerful, most versatile answer. > > What you need: > > * A tool to extract the information you want to use for renaming. > To use EXIF data, maybe use [1], but there are many tools > available. > > * Basic shell understanding. > > The first part is quite easy and specializes your capabilities for > this very task. The second is a little more effort, but will benefit > you a lifetime. > > Everyone should know how to use this ultra-flexible framework known as > Unix/Linux shell, instead of just jumping at partial solutions for > very specific problems just because they have a GUI. GUI tools make > one specific task very easy, but make everything impossible the > authors have not thought of. In short, GUIs are examples of letting other people do the thinking and decisions making for you. In some circumstances this my be a focus, an accelerator, if and only if you are going along with what they authors of the GUI were intending. For many GUIs that is so. But the fact that in this forum we mention using, directly, things other than Darktable, , if often illustrative of this point. And even the authors of darktable have admitted that they had not intended for their tool to do that. One way or another, you are also going to be able to specify the 'pattern' for whatever tool or method you use in order to make use of its capabilities. Google/Wikipedia for the term 'regular expression'. The irony is that some language/application designers, in their arrogance' decided that they would 'do it differently' and make regular expressions work in non-standard ways. personally I can't bother to learn all these exceptions, which is another reason I prefer shell scripts for mattes like this. Those REs have been the same for decades now ... -- Parents complain that "kids don't do anything for themselves any more." Then they write letters to the board demanding that the schools do something about it. -- Arnold Lapiner ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
