batch-rename

batch-rename

With batch-rename you can utilize your favorite text editor to rename or move a bunch of files at once. It doesn't come with any features beside the core function. You only need to start the tool in any directory, and it will open a list of paths inside your preferred editor ready for you to edit.

When run from inside some directory, this program will:

1. Create a temporary file with a list of all files contained in the given directory and its sub directories.
2. Opens the temporary file with the default editor. (For files with the file extension .batch-rename)
3. Reads the file back, and renames/moves the files.

Usage

There are multiple ways to use this tool:

• Download the compiled binary, then move and execute it into the directory you want to rename files in.
• Download the compiled binary, and move it to any directory that is in your path environment variable. Afterwards you can run batch-rename from inside any directory.
• Use go install github.com/Dadido3/batch-rename@latest. Afterwards you can run batch-rename from inside any directory.
• Build it yourself from source, see below.

Options

• batch-rename --no-numbers will disable line number output. This means that each line contains only the file path without a preceding number, which can help if you need to search and replace numbers in filenames. Using this option has the downside that any line removal or insertion can mess up the mapping between old and new paths, which can mess up your filenames.
• batch-rename --regex "\.png$|\.jpg$" will only include files that match with the regular expression \.png\$|\.jpg\$. In this example only files ending in .png or .jpg are included.

Building

This software uses GoReleaser to automatically build and upload artifacts to GitHub. Make sure to install GoReleaser.

• To build for your current platform use goreleaser build --single-target --clean. Or goreleaser build --single-target --snapshot --clean if you have modified the repository.
• To simulate the release process, use goreleaser --skip-publish --auto-snapshot --clean.

To build for your current platform and without GoReleaser, use go build. This will result in the same executable, but without correct version information.