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F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely. Written in Go!

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-05-24 · latest 2025-10-13

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2025 (3)
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  1. Make sure to check out f2, the batch renaming CLI tool. It's perfectly honed and lubricated magic: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 Got featured here on HN few weeks ago.
    comment by foofoo12 · 2025-10-13 · in Modern Linux tools
  2. I'm partial to f2. https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2
  3. Missing from this list is f2 (golang), one of my happiest finds of recent memory: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2
    comment by sneak · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools
  4. …other similar tools have it backwards with their dry-run mode relegated to a secondary action. [1]: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2
    comment by ayoisaiah · 2021-05-24 · in In praise of --dry-run