"Edit" files names

"Edit" files names

[Yuri D'Elia]

Hi everyone,

Let's assume I have a garbled file name that I want to rename more
conveniently into an editor, without painful escaping.

I'd like to do the following:

$ editname *garbled*

popping my $EDITOR with a file containing the original file name
(unescaped), and upon saving+closing, renames the original into the new
name provided. If the pattern expands to more files, it just repeats for
each file, in turn.

It's not hard to implement, but does anybody know of a tool which
already does that (or something very similar)?

Re: "Edit" files names

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Let's assume I have a garbled file name that I want to rename more
> conveniently into an editor, without painful escaping.
>
> I'd like to do the following:
>
> $ editname *garbled*
>
> popping my $EDITOR with a file containing the original file name
> (unescaped), and upon saving+closing, renames the original into the new
> name provided. If the pattern expands to more files, it just repeats for
> each file, in turn.
>
> It's not hard to implement, but does anybody know of a tool which
> already does that (or something very similar)?

Have you tried the edit-command-line widget?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Re: "Edit" files names

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Tue, Sep 05 2017, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> It's not hard to implement, but does anybody know of a tool which
>> already does that (or something very similar)?
>
> Have you tried the edit-command-line widget?

How would you use it efficiently in the above scenario?

The only way I can think of, is by pre-composing

$ mv *exp* *exp*

thus expand the filename twice, then edit the command (which would then
be escaped in the current style).

Inefficient.

Re: "Edit" files names

[Bart Schaefer]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> wrote:
>
> It's not hard to implement, but does anybody know of a tool which
> already does that (or something very similar)?

Unless you count emacs' Dired mode, no, I haven't heard of any such thing.

There is zmv, of course, but that's a different approach.

Re: "Edit" files names

[Simon Ruderich]

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On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:10:20PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
>>
>> It's not hard to implement, but does anybody know of a tool which
>> already does that (or something very similar)?
>
> Unless you count emacs' Dired mode, no, I haven't heard of any such thing.
>
> There is zmv, of course, but that's a different approach.

There's also vidir (works with any $EDITOR), available in
moreutils [1].

Regards
Simon

[1]: http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
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