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To get shit done in general.
If I need to rename a file, yeah, I can do that by right-clicking it in the file explorer, and selecting 'rename' from the menu. Two files? Painful but doable. Three files? Oh hell no, I'm switching to my always-open-in-background terminal window, and write a quick
c=1; for f in *.jpeg; do mv "$f" $c.jpeg; c=`expr $c \+ 1` ; doneand it takes twice less time than clicking things through with mouse.And yes, I wrote that shell command off the top of my head on the first try and without edits.
Just so you know, in emacs you can do mass rename of multiple files using dired-mode. Never use a for loop again.
I'm sorry, I'm too old to learn emacs over my perfect knowledge of Midnight Commander.
The point of this topic was to tell why we are using terminal, and emacs is kind of terminal on steroids, there are like 1000 key bindings and the mouse is totally optional, you are proving the point even further.
dired mode is very similar to mc
There's also vidir from moreutils, which lets you bulk-rename files in your $EDITOR of choice.
I just discovered that I know emacs commands because I use them in the bash terminal all the time.
Hey look, it's us:
https://odysee.com/@ProgrammersAreAlsoHuman:3/interview-with-an-emacs-enthusiast-in:d
It's emacspiracy to subtly teach unsuspecting Ubuntu users the despicable ways of Emacs Lisp.
It all starts with learning 100 common terminal keybindings. And un-learning Ctrl-C.
Libreadline
The Thunar bulk renamer is relatively good, but recently I wanted to name images based on the capture date. Probably very tedious without the right GUI tool, while it's just one line using exiftool in the terminal. (I don't know it off the top of my head)
Similarly, I just extracted the audio only from a video using ffmpeg in like 10s.
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c:a copy out.mkaI usually just press F2 to rename things in a GUI
Doesn't work in Finder.