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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

I'm the kind that never opens a file manager other than to move stuff from one directory to another

[-] Harryd91@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

File Manager is the best for bulk renaming too

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

I mean if you knew the command XD a single for loop should work

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Eh you rapidly need to know regular expressions to accomplish bulk renaming in the terminal, where some GUI tools like Bulky are a little more powerful for people without chronic eye fatigue.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah I have no idea how to do that too. But I would find it soo nice if Distros would ship bash scripts for all that.

rename EXPRESSION EXPRESSION

With some help on how to do it and actually helpful tldr. btw:

cheat(){
curl cheat.sh/$1
}

Damn Lemmy...

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm a POSIX shell Chad I write shell scripts with parameters in pure POSIX shell for such things /s

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