File Utilities

Tools that make certain tasks of file management and manipulation easier.

mov 1.10 [directory]

This program renames files and optionally moves them to another directory in one operation. It combines features of the mv and rename commands.

Example for a typical use case: You want to move files to another directory and put a date prefix to their file names on the fly.

numbered 1.32 [directory]

This script takes a list of files as arguments and renames them to include ascending numbers. This process can be highly customized: the resulting filenames can also contain user-defined text, the number of digits and the counter's start can be defined, the extensions' case can be converted etc.

For example, this may be helpful if you want to rename some photos in a way similar to this:

DSCN0120.JPG .. DSCN0179.JPG --> NewYork_000.jpg .. NewYork_059.jpg

To achieve this you would type: numbered -b NewYork_ -c DSCN*.JPG