Vim-based Renamer

Are you good with Vim? Do you look at ls -l or find output wishing you could just pipe it into vim and fix filenames in bulk? That's what this tool does.

Two examples:

I've been using it frequently for a few years now. I've used bulk rename tools before, but knowing Vim pretty well, this beats everything. I hope you enjoy it, too!

The vn file in this repository is all you need, it's a small Python3 script that uses only standard libraries.

Download the file or copy the contents into a text file and place it somewhere in your $PATH. If you are not sure what that means, it's easiest to put it in /usr/bin/vn and give it executable permissions with chmod +x /usr/bin/vn. You can now use it as shown in the example above.