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Batch-rename files using Vim

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-08-13 · latest 2025-07-15

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  1. See vimv ( https://github.com/thameera/vimv ) for a minimal version of this in the CLI, using Vim as the editor.
  2. …that having a separate command just for mass-renaming files does not seem to be justified. [1]: https://github.com/thameera/vimv
  3. …and quitting. Not sure if this is the official/canonical distribution, but for what it's worth: https://github.com/thameera/vimv
    comment by rsync · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools
  4. ▲ 2
    Git-compatible bulk renaming tool using Vim
    story by nthdeui · 2021-03-19 · 0 comments
  5. you might also be interested in vimv and vimcp https://github.com/thameera/vimv https://github.com/danieldugas/vimcp
  6. Links for mass moving mentioned in the page: - 2018: https://github.com/lgommans/vinamer - 2017: https://github.com/thameera/vimv - 2017: https://github.com/abaldwin88/roamer - 2006: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ , `vidir`
  7. …a whole bunch of files is much more interesting, and when I need to do that, I use vimv[0]. [0]: https://github.com/thameera/vimv
  8. …one liner to do the renaming (especially if some of the renaming is arbitrary or random). [1] https://github.com/thameera/vimv
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    Rename files using Vim
    story by stsewd · 2017-08-13 · 1 comment