Re: [Ranger-users] Any support for batch renaming?

[Alan Warren]

moreutils is awesome. Thanks for mentioning that.  I'm off to figure out what all these apps do.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM, David Barnett <address@hidden> wrote:

There's a tool called vidir in a neat little package called moreutils that lets you do exactly that. It opens up a vim buffer with all the filenames and lets you edit them, and then does a batch rename when you write and quit.

David

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Roman Z. <address@hidden> wrote:

There's one on rangers wiki:
http://ourproject.org/moin/projects/ranger/bulkrename

I wanted to add a :s command but it could mess things up badly,
since there is no undo-function (yet?)

btw. I'm curious about the way you usually do it, wanna share?

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:56:36PM +0800, XeCycle wrote:
> For now, I didn't find any built-in support for batch
> renaming. It'll be great if I can rename files in current
> folder or currently marked files with a simple vim
> style :s/a/b/g. I can do this trick with several commands,
> but don't know whether ranger support commands in this
> style.
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