On 10/29/2016 04:59 AM, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: > Have a look at renamexm from sys-apps/rename (it's actually called > rename > but for Gentoo is was renamed to avoid a collision). It has a lot more > options than rename and defaults to prompting you if you try to > rename to > an existing file. > > > I use vidir from sys-apps/moreutils. > All the power of vim (or whatever you set in $VISUAL) and no need to > pray that your incantation is correct: you edit the file list as a text, > and when you're satisfied, save and exit. > > -- Emanuele Rusconi > I second the vidir recommendation. I can't tell you how many times it's made batch renaming easy, powerful, and intuitive for me.
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