F2 - Command-line batch renaming tool

[muggins]

https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2

F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely. Written in Go!

I downloaded an already compiled binary from:

https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2/releases

[MochiMoppel]

@muggins Nice find! Did you try it?

This is an incredibly powerful renaming tool and certainly deserves some attention
1) Only 1 binary file
2) Works nicely in my ancient Slacko 5.6
3) Still actively developed
4) Well documented with many examples

As all command line tools it lacks some user friendliness and requires to study the syntax, but that's a small price to pay. It can rename files in a way no other renaming tool I've ever seen can.

What Puppy users may miss is the possibility to rename files selected in ROX-Filer. However this could be done with a script that takes a ROX-Filer selection as input.

[muggins]

Hello MochiMoppel,

I only gave it a short test, just to check it works in my pupversion. But, yes, it is fast & powerful & it would be
good if someone could write a frontend for it.

[Burunduk]

New version:

1.8.0 (2022-02-22)

Add a "simple mode" for quick renaming operations in the current directory.

1.9.0 (2023-02-02)

Simple mode now prompts before executing.
You can now use capture variables with indexing.

A simple mode example: f2 '\.jpg$' .jpeg

Edit: Hopefully a less funny example. The good thing is that it's possible to undo funny results of the latest f2 command with f2 -ux.
Edit 2: New version: 1.9.0

[Flash]

Uh oh.

[bob93]

I downloaded an already compiled binary from:

https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2/releases

Hi there. How do I install it? Do I download the deb package?

[muggins]

If you download https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2/release ... d64.tar.gz then you can extract the f2 binary. To have it it your path, just move it to /usr/bin/

Edit: I changed the link from the development release to the stable version.

[Geek3579]

Looks good.

For more complex renaming tasks like renumbering etc I have tried MultiRename which is OOTB in Bookwormpup64 under the Filesystem menu.

Worth trying.