mmv vs pistol

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rename multiple files with editor (by itchyny)

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pistol

General purpose file previewer designed for Ranger, Lf to make scope.sh redundant (by doronbehar)

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mmv		pistol
	Project
3	Mentions	3
728	Stars	293
-	Growth	-
4.3	Activity	6.2
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

mmv

Posts with mentions or reviews of mmv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

mmv-c: quickly rename files and dirs with your favorite text editor
5 projects | /r/commandline | 3 Jan 2023

This is an implementation of [itchyny/mmv](https://github.com/itchyny/mmv) in C. It allows the user to open an item in their filesystem, such as a file or directory, in `$EDITOR` and modify the item's name.
Awesome Rewrite It In Rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
62 projects | /r/rust | 27 May 2021

nym, a library/CLI for pattern-based file manipulation based loosely on mmv
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
25 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2021

Requires: mmv

pistol

Posts with mentions or reviews of pistol. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.

A list of new(ish) command line tools – Julia Evans
56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2022
Recommendations for a general fzf --preview implementation that can show images with ueberzug?
4 projects | /r/commandline | 25 Nov 2021

I was googling around for a general-purpose command or script that can be used with fzf's --preview to give a sensible preview of different filetypes. There are some (like pistol), but I didn't find any that have an image and PDF preview that works out of the box.
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
25 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2021

Requires: fzf, pistol

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mmv and pistol you can also consider the following projects:

gitoxide - An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git

broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries

fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.

nnn.vim - File manager for vim/neovim powered by n³

joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust

libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

lf - A Language Features library for Emacs Lisp

awesome-rewrite-it-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust]

nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager