You can write a “better renamer” in any scripting language, but I’m learning Ruby, so I thought i’d give it a go. I started with this basic one-liner I got from a friend<\/p>\n
I wanted to add some user friendliness for when i forget what the argument syntax is, so I modified it and made it into a normal script, “rubyrename.rb”<\/p>\n I also added some bells and whistles<\/p>\n Example:<\/p>\n Now all I have to do is alias a shorter command to my rubyrename script in my .profile<\/p>\n Of course rubyrename.rb<\/em> needs to be in my path, or I could have specified the full path in the alias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can write a “better renamer” in any scripting language, but I’m learning Ruby, so I thought i’d give it a go. I started with this basic one-liner I got from a friend alias rubyrename=’ruby -e “a = ARGV.shift; b = ARGV.shift; ARGV.each{ |f| File.rename(f, f.gsub(a, b)) } “‘ I wanted to add some user […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages","category-rubyrails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}alias rubyrename='ruby -e \"a = ARGV.shift; b = ARGV.shift; ARGV.each{ |f| File.rename(f, f.gsub(a, b)) } \"'<\/code><\/p>\n\r\n#!\/opt\/local\/bin\/ruby\r\nunless ARGV.size > 2\r\n puts \"Usage: rubyrename STRING1 STRING2 REGEXP\"\r\n puts \" where STRING1 is to be replace with STRING2 in \"\r\n puts \" all filenames that match REGEXP\"\r\n exit\r\nend\r\na = ARGV.shift\r\nb = ARGV.shift\r\nARGV.each do |f|\r\n unless f == f.gsub(a, b)\r\n File.rename(f, f.gsub(a, b))\r\n puts \"#{f} -> #{f.gsub(a, b)}\"\r\n end\r\nend<\/pre>\n\r\nartemis:~\/temp daniel$ ls\r\nfoofoofoo.01 foofoofoo.02 foofoofoo.03<\/pre>\n
artemis:~\/temp daniel$ rubyrename.rb foo bar *\r\nfoofoofoo.01 -> barbarbar.01\r\nfoofoofoo.02 -> barbarbar.02\r\nfoofoofoo.03 -> barbarbar.03\r\n\r\nartemis:~\/temp daniel$ rubyrename.rb bar foobar *\r\nbarbarbar.01 -> foobarfoobarfoobar.01\r\nbarbarbar.02 -> foobarfoobarfoobar.02\r\nbarbarbar.03 -> foobarfoobarfoobar.03\r\n\r\nartemis:~\/temp daniel$ ls\r\nfoobarfoobarfoobar.01 foobarfoobarfoobar.02 foobarfoobarfoobar.03<\/pre>\n
\r\nalias rrn=rubyrename.rb\r\n<\/pre>\n