Mvr

a Ruby script that allows you to rename a group of files via regular expression

Installation

Install it yourself as:

$ gem install mvr

Usage

required parameters:

• match pattern
• replacement pattern (use \1 for first match, \2 for second match, and so on)
• filenames

optional parameters:

• -e or --exclude-extension to exclude the extension of the file from the pattern matching/replacement
• -v or --override-colors to override the colors with the ones configured by the [colorconfig][colorconfig] script

displays:

prints a color-coded list of file names and their replacement names; also asks for confirmation

Color Coding:

grey background for no change, red background for conflict

action:

if you type y or yes (case insensitive), it will rename the files; anything else will cause it to cancel the operation