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bin+lib rrename

" Opinionated tool to rename files in batch. Match regular expression, replace some characters I consider noise to kebab case

1 unstable release

Uses new Rust 2024

new 0.1.2 May 9, 2025

#991 in Text processing

MIT/Apache

17KB
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rrename

A very opinionated command-line tool/library for file mass-renaming using regex

Example

no arguments run

> ls
 mock
 ├── Another Dir & Co
    ├── Some [some#bs].txt
    └── Some & Track.txt
 ├── Some Dir
    ├── SOME_fILe.txt
    ├── some, text_file.txt
    └── some,text_file.txt
 └── Some -  Word With III dCi135_
     └── Some Word F3500 dCi135 StereoM10.txt

> rrename
> ls
 mock
 ├── another-dir-and-co
    ├── some-and-track.txt
    └── some-[some#bs].txt
 ├── some-dir
    ├── some-file.txt
    ├── some-text-file-25057.txt
    └── some-text-file-57497.txt
 └── some-word-with-iii-dci135-
     └── some-word-f3500-dci135-stereom10.txt

using regex to substitute

> ls
3pv-some-file.mp4
> rrename -E "3pv-" -s ""
'./3pv-some-file.mp4' -> './some-file.mp4'
Renamed: 1, depth:1

kudos

wrench was taken as a base

License: MIT OR Apache-2.0

Dependencies

~5–7.5MB
~137K SLoC