Hello from xplr

[sayanarijit]

Hi, nice tool. I have migrated the bach rename xplr hack from mmv to pipe-rename because it supports reading filenames from stdin.

This solves the following problems:

• I don't have to deal with escaping file paths that include white spaces. I can just use cat $XPLR_PIPE_RESULT_OUT | renamer.
• The input is not limited to the maximum size of command-line arguments supported by the system.

Really neat thinking :+1:

Also, I like the custom rename command argument. That gave me this project idea of a more generic tool, let's call it batch.

So when I execute ls | batch 'mv {} {}', editor will open

mv "a" "a"
mv "b" "b"

or rm -rf {}

rm -rf "a"
rm -rf "b"

Basically xargs but lets you edit and review the operation before executing, with a nice confirmation prompt.

[marcusbuffett]

Sweet! Happy to hear this was useful for you :D

Love the batch idea, cool that it would be a two-for-one, in that it's doing a dry-run and fixing any issues, in one go.