AUTORENAMER(1)

📦 version 0.6, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 AUTORENAMER 💖

okay bestie, so this is autorenamer — a lil General Commands Manual situation, and honestly? it's giving "my filesystem finally makes sense". no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

autorenamer — a program to rename files so they sort according to given ordering 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

autorenamer

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, just vibes and a window. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🫖 — autorenamer is an interactive graphical user interface program. yes, a real GUI, we are NOT doing this in the terminal, we are doing this with our eyes and our mouse like civilized main characters. ✨

it displays the contents of a directory using icons that you can reorder using drag-and-drop. literally just grab them and move them around, it's so satisfying, iykyk. 🎀

once you are done, the program renames the files such that their alphabetical ordering is the same as the order you chose. so like… you arrange them how you want them to feel, and autorenamer makes the computer believe it. iconic behaviour honestly. 🌈

🍓 the selection thing (important!!) 🍓

  • if any entries are selected when "Save" is clicked → only the selected entries are renamed
  • otherwise → all the entries in the directory are renamed
⚠️ bestie pls read that twice. the "otherwise" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. no selection means EVERYTHING gets renamed. vibe check your directory first fr fr. 💀

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

  • mv(1). — the OG. the elder. the one that raised us. 💜

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

autorenamer was written by Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>. absolute legend, we stan. 👑

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💖 this one's from the General Commands Manual, dated November 27, 2011 — vintage but still slaying. go forth and reorder ur icons. periodt. 🦋✨🎀

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