voidrice VS broot

Here is a shell script made by me to change all directories' and files' names and do the below changes. It can change 100.000 files' names under a minute: a) Remove non-English characters. b) Replace spaces, dots, and dashes with underscores. c) Remove consecutive underscores. d) Convert the name to lowercase. e) Remove any other special characters. f) If the resulting name is empty, set it to "untitled". g) Every file or directory should start and end with an alphanumeric character.

I am using Luke Smith Booksplit script to split audio files into chapter but when I do I get this error

If you really want to rice it insanely you can add the stuff from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMj7JSGR78 https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice

I downloaded Luke Smith's booksplit script, but it seems I can't to get it working. Here is the link for his script: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.local/bin/booksplit

Yep something like that. Actually I stole mine from the dotfiles of LukeSmith https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.local/bin/dmenuunicode

Just start with this. I stole it from him and then heavily modified it as I found more use cases. As a hint, using gallery-dl helps a lot with reddit/imgur galleries.

Take a look at broot https://github.com/Canop/broot

A past coworker implemented a system like this. It was awful. He was the gatekeeper because the numbers and names had to be "just so" to meet his approval, and he was the most senior person on the team. He was neurotic in general and a pain to work with.

The idea of limiting yourself to a few top-level categories in a directory hierarchy and then doing the same with subdirectories makes sense, but adding numbers is a bad idea. It just creates more work, and other people have to learn your idiosyncratic nomenclature. Just give the directories good names and get on with it. Search really isn't as bad as the article suggests, especially with something like broot [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Canop/broot

I've used a lot of the tools mentioned here in comments, but I think just for finding a directory/file broot[1] is much faster and easier than others. Though it is also quite feature rich but mostly it's just write a fuzzy search term that could even be sub-sub-directory and open, extremely quickly.

[1] https://github.com/Canop/broot

`broot` (https://github.com/Canop/broot) is another file manager with a curious interface that seems to fill a similar niche.

Of course, there are many other file managers to choose from (mc, ranger, nnn, lf, ....), but most of them don't show nested subdirectories by default.

As a macOS user, it boils my brain whenever I've to type in something like ~/Library/Application Support/org.rust-lang.Cargo/config.toml. macOS users have been begging CLI tools to support XDG variables on macOS too. Setting defaults is a strong indication to the community what should be the "preferred" locations. The defaults defined in your article will invariably lead to some authors saying that if that path is good enough for cargo, then it is good enough for their tool. Even the latest draft RFC acknowledges that macOS should use XDG variables too. I've written more about this here.

You may be interested in broot

I think you’re conflating different projects.

There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacement. Some examples are

- ls => exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa)

- grep => ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)

- cat => bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat)

- tree => broot (https://github.com/Canop/broot)

The person you’re replying to was speaking of a different project - uutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils). These are drop in replacements with identical interfaces (modulo bugs).

Even better broot, previously adding view verb to config:

Broot: https://github.com/Canop/broot