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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 15:47:54 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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   • 👾 Seher Taak 🐃
   • thomastc | frozenfractal

   @taak C-c C-q to enter writable dired. C-c C-c is for writing the changes back.

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     👾 Seher Taak 🐃 (taak@troet.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 15:47:56 JST 👾 Seher Taak 🐃

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     • thomastc | frozenfractal

     @thomastc You can do it inside vim: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Bulk_rename_files_with_Vim

     But the emacs way is better: open the directory in dired, press c-c c-c, you're now in edit mode, that is, the buffer with the directory listing is now fully editable, apply any modifications, press c-c c-c again to save the buffer, thus renaming the files.

     Take a look: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1K1crWKn8

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     thomastc | frozenfractal (thomastc@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 15:48:01 JST thomastc | frozenfractal

     Is there a tool for the #Linux command line that helps me mass rename files *semi-manually*? I'm imagining something that lists the file names in my $EDITOR of choice, letting me edit them, and upon saving and exiting, applies the renames.

     For example: I have a sequence of files with 0-based indices, and I want to change it to 1-based indices. There aren't many files, so it's quicker to do this in vim than it is to write a script. But typing 20 "mv" commands, even with tab completion, is slow.