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Rename a list of files using a text editor

Language: Python

Here are some very small tools I made for things I do over and over again…

A button to create new files inside macOS Finder (`touch` without the terminal).

https://github.com/ivanmaeder/finder-touch/

(⌘ + Shift + N creates new folders by the way.)

This I just published now, I use it multiple times a day: an iOS shortcut for emailing myself things.

https://redchamp.net/blog/email-me

A command-line script for bulk-renaming files (it lets you edit file/dir names inside a text editor).

https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv/

I wrote this to make renaming multiple files quicker/easier:

https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv

Basically it loads up the output of `ls` into an editor, then runs a `mv` command for each line.

Not something I use daily, but still handy.

Colour picker: https://sipapp.io/

Download videos from YouTube and other sources: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ (was the only way I could get a video from the BBC site recently)

Chrome extension for taking a screenshot of a full web page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c...

Shameless plugs:

Script for renaming multiple files at the same time: https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv

Button in macOS Finder for creating a file in the current folder: https://github.com/ivanmaeder/finder-touch

That last one written in AppleScript which is craaazy.

One unix based utility that has saved me incredible amounts of time is 'vimv'.[1]

You run vimv and you get your pwd, in the editor, and you can edit it like a text file. Then just quit and save and all of your filename changes get committed to that directory.

It's an extremely fast way to do a bunch of random and irregular edits to a big directory full of files.

[1] https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv