virename

Batch rename files using your editor. The script is pretty short and simple - I encourage you to look at it yourself to see what it does in detail.

Usage

Rename all files in current directory

virename

Rename all PNG's using shell globbing

virename *.png

Rename all but PNG's, reading the list of files to rename from stdin (notice the -)

find -not -name "*.png" | virename -

Change the default editor

EDITOR=nvim virename

Change the default mv command

• Create all leading destination directories if they don't exist by using install -D

MV='install -D' virename

• Integrate with git using git mv

git ls-files -m | MV='git mv -v' virename -

Inspiration

I was obviously inspired by vimv. Thing is - it does some questionable things (evals, using ls output, repeatedly echo-appending to the same file and such). I could've opened a couple of PR's to fix all theese things, but that would be me basically rewriting the whole script - why not just do exactly that here? And add a couple of features while I'm at it - support for reading the filenames from stdin, and customizable mv command. The latter allowed me to remove git mv and mkdir -p integrations from the script itself, but still make them (and much more) possible :)