ren is a command-line utility that takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them.
By default, it outputs a diff-preview of the renamed files and directories to standard output, and with a flag it can rename the files and directories.
Much of the functionality, and the overall structure of the source code, was borrowed from sd. ren began as a fork of sd.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/robenkleene/ren-find
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Developer: Gregory
License: MIT License
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