Introduction
That's a tool to rename files with the help of regular expressions. It allows one to replace parts of filenames and/or directories, rename them completely, remove files which match a given pattern, change the case of them, use help of external programs, and more.
Options
Here is an excerpt of the help message you will obtain by using the --help option:
Usage: remv [OPTIONS] [PATTERN [REPLACE]] FILE ...
Options:
-r replace PATTERN with REPLACE for each file (default)
-m move files matching PATTERN to REPLACE
-d remove all occurrences of PATTERN
-c capitalize all given files
-l lowercase all given files
-u uppercase all given files
-i ignore case when matching PATTERN
-R be recursive
-D do action on directories as well
-I confirm actions interactively
-C consider REPLACE to be a command, expanding backreferences
before and after execution
-v be verbose
--dry don't actually do anything
-h, --help print this message
Examples
Here are some usage examples:
Replace spaces by underlines:
remv ' ' '_' *
Do the same with help from sed:
remv -m -C '.*' 'echo "\&" | sed "s/_/ /g"' *
Move files like 6.1.001 to vim-6.1-001.patch:
remv -m '^6.1.(\d{3})$' 'vim-6.1-\1.patch' Capitalize all files:
remv -c *
Lowercase all files:
remv -l *
Replace vs. Move
A frequent question is what's the difference between the -r (the default one) and the -m parameter. It's simple: -r will replace what the pattern matched with the replace pattern, while -m will replace the complete filename with the replace pattern. For example, if you have a file named my_file in the current directory, and run the following command:
remv file test *
my_file will be renamed to my_test. While, if you execute the command:
remv -m file test *
my_file will be renamed to test.
Download
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Author
Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>