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[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

AMEN! I asked recently if there was a good Linux alternative to this program I used in Windows called "Bulk Rename Utility" and i was flooded by people telling me how easy it was to set up a script to do what I want.

Turns out the best alternative is running BRU in Wine.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

There almost always powerful existing utilities that can do what you want in linux.

But you have to find them and they have a learning curve. Sometimes that "curve" is a cliff.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh though, as a person going through this learning right now, the single most essential thing I did was youtube "basic bash tutorial" and watch a few videos/follow along with them. Gave me the first foothold to start climbing the cliff, made it much less foreboding.

Now I'm struggling with for loops, but that is not exactly basic and I'm blaming that on my ADHD, I haven't tried to learn in months, I'll get around to it!

[-] Supermuff@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago
[-] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I'd have recommended KRename personally. It uses some programming-esque stuff (format specifiers for stuff), but it's not exactly difficult to do advanced stuff with it.

[-] hellishharlot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This makes me wonder how powerful a repo platform like gitlab would be if it allowed people to suggest software ideas and have people make them. In this instance a simple GUI wrapper for bulk rename command line would be sufficient but I would bet there's millions of things like that, not world changing software just nice qol stuff

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried to do something very similar recently and every solution I found involved using the command line with regular expressions. Fuck I hate regex. It would literally be faster for me to manually rename the files than to debug the regex until it works.

[-] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 1 points 1 year ago

Let me tell you about the wonderful world of pipes

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

No need for a script, just use rename.

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