vils-ng

vils-ng is a mass renaming script that allows you to rename files with all the comfort of your favorite editor. It is a small bash rewrite of the original vils tool. I also added a few features I was missing in the original script.

History

The original vils was written by Oliver Fromme in 2002. It uses zsh and is an enormous timesaver. You can find the original code of the vils script here.

Usage

  vils-ng [options] [file1] [file2] [file3] [...]

    -h help
    -r recursive
    -v verbose
    -x use $VISUAL instead of $EDITOR

  Example usage:

    rename files in actual dir:
    > vils-ng

    rename files in actual dir and all subdirs:
    > vils-ng -r

    rename specific files:
    > vils-ng testfile1.txt testfile2.mkv testdir/testfile3.log

Authors

Simon Schiele (mailto:simon.codingmonkey@gmail.com)