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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

AMEN! I asked recently if there was a good Linux alternative to this program I used in Windows called "Bulk Rename Utility" and i was flooded by people telling me how easy it was to set up a script to do what I want.

Turns out the best alternative is running BRU in Wine.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There almost always powerful existing utilities that can do what you want in linux.

    But you have to find them and they have a learning curve. Sometimes that "curve" is a cliff.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Tbh though, as a person going through this learning right now, the single most essential thing I did was youtube "basic bash tutorial" and watch a few videos/follow along with them. Gave me the first foothold to start climbing the cliff, made it much less foreboding.

    Now I'm struggling with for loops, but that is not exactly basic and I'm blaming that on my ADHD, I haven't tried to learn in months, I'll get around to it!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This makes me wonder how powerful a repo platform like gitlab would be if it allowed people to suggest software ideas and have people make them. In this instance a simple GUI wrapper for bulk rename command line would be sufficient but I would bet there's millions of things like that, not world changing software just nice qol stuff

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