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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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See vimv ( https://github.com/thameera/vimv ) for a minimal version of this in the CLI, using Vim as the editor.
comment by lorenzohess · 2025-07-15 · in Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer -
…that having a separate command just for mass-renaming files does not seem to be justified. [1]: https://github.com/thameera/vimv
comment by kkoncevicius · 2023-03-31 · in RnR: CLI tool to batch rename files and directories -
…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 -
you might also be interested in vimv and vimcp https://github.com/thameera/vimv https://github.com/danieldugas/vimcp
comment by chronolitus · 2020-08-22 · in Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012) -
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`
comment by dejj · 2020-04-14 · in Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times -
…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
comment by yakshaving_jgt · 2020-04-14 · in Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times -
…one liner to do the renaming (especially if some of the renaming is arbitrary or random). [1] https://github.com/thameera/vimv
comment by rsync · 2018-11-24 · in Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers