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From: Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] showing files in numerical order
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:00:21
Message-Id: CAPife4kJBBLAQFZn6aJ7N0-a5vKCfksGbn_rV39f7BX9p+xsvg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] showing files in numerical order by Neil Bothwick
1 >
2 > Have a look at renamexm from sys-apps/rename (it's actually called rename
3 > but for Gentoo is was renamed to avoid a collision). It has a lot more
4 > options than rename and defaults to prompting you if you try to rename to
5 > an existing file.
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8 I use vidir from sys-apps/moreutils.
9 All the power of vim (or whatever you set in $VISUAL) and no need to pray
10 that your incantation is correct: you edit the file list as a text, and
11 when you're satisfied, save and exit.
12
13 -- Emanuele Rusconi

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Re: [gentoo-user] showing files in numerical order Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>