vimv VS fff

I do not know ranger, but I personally use vimv

There are a lot of tools dedicated to this. My past favourite is vimv [1].

However, for me this operation is so rare that having a separate command just for mass-renaming files does not seem to be justified.

[1]: https://github.com/thameera/vimv

Just use vidir. Also see here: https://github.com/thameera/vimv/issues/3

… also of vimv.

I use vimv in lf for bulk renames. https://github.com/thameera/vimv

It's inspired by vimv which is a bulk-rename utility that uses vim.

I find myself using vimv quite a lot as I need to rename files on regular basis. It's a bulk renamer that uses vim. I also just created a similar tool for bulk removing files virm. The motivation was that one time when I opened vimv and deleted a line and expected it to delete that file xD.

brn is a command line tool similar to vimv. It can be used to easily mass-rename files in your preferred text editor.

As something of an old-timer here, there's some amusement, but mostly appreciation that people are discovering that these very old ways of doing things have a lot of potential (and a lot of untapped ideas)

Somewhat relatedly, recently I discovered the colorfully named fff. It's a solid file manager, but what I've used it for is a terminal based filespace navigator (by adding a function that just leaves you in the place you navigated to).

It's funny how it's hard to break the habit of "cd" to move around, despite this being way faster, especially if you're not sure where you're going.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff

Hi. fff, lf, clifm Won't say they're best or not, rather interesting and maybe worth looking at. Looked up for the z in termux's repos and it's called "zoxide" there.

According the git repo for fff there are several keybindings (maybe this is a bad design, idk) see https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff

Did you check fff?

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff — better color support, image support, fast as fuck and written in widely installed pure BASH

fff - fast file manager written in bash https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff

Yes, there are many. One popular one is [ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger). Another, more minimal example is [fff](https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff).