A cli tool to rename files in bulk.
I don't like the perl-rename or the rename tool in linux. I could learn to get better at them but I don't want to. Anyway regex can get pretty gaudy and it's not intuitive to me to come with the right pattern on the fly in a timely manner. So I'm experimenting here with a simpler syntax: hello(n:int)->hi(n) which reads better and looks self-explanatory. But I don't rename files that often so maybe it doesn't matter.
export VER=$(wget -qO- https://github.com/Gnarus-G/rename/releases/latest | grep -oP 'v\d+\.\d+\.\d+' | tail -n 1);
curl -L https://github.com/Gnarus-G/rename/releases/download/$VER/rn-$OSTYPE.tar.gz -o rename.tar.gz
tar -xzvf rename.tar.gz rn
# Allow to able to run it from anywhere [Optional]
sudo mv rn /usr/local/binGrab a binary (linux or mac) in releases or run the install script above.
./rn simple --helpFor example to replace file1, or file99 to 1renamed.txt or 99renamed.txt
./rn simple "file(n:int)->(n)renamed.txt" file*./rn regex "file(\d+)" '${1}renamed.txt' file*
One might say, blazingly fast?
The "simple" match and replace syntax is still in development. The happy path pretty much works, and the parser gives comprehensive error messages.