• littlecolt@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    AMEN! I asked recently if there was a good Linux alternative to this program I used in Windows called “Bulk Rename Utility” and i was flooded by people telling me how easy it was to set up a script to do what I want.

    Turns out the best alternative is running BRU in Wine.

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      1 year ago

      There almost always powerful existing utilities that can do what you want in linux.

      But you have to find them and they have a learning curve. Sometimes that “curve” is a cliff.

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      1 year ago

      This makes me wonder how powerful a repo platform like gitlab would be if it allowed people to suggest software ideas and have people make them. In this instance a simple GUI wrapper for bulk rename command line would be sufficient but I would bet there’s millions of things like that, not world changing software just nice qol stuff

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      1 year ago

      I’d have recommended KRename personally. It uses some programming-esque stuff (format specifiers for stuff), but it’s not exactly difficult to do advanced stuff with it.