ZJzJayv·Dec 21, 2022Recommendation phrase
https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv
100%. I use this every day, esp. when editing my music library.
In Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)ivanmaeder
vimv
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ivanmaeder / vimv
vimv
Rename a list of files using a text editor
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https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv 100%. I use this every day, esp. when editing my music library.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesHere are some very small tools I made for things I do over and over again…
A button to create new files inside macOS Finder (`touch` without the terminal).
https://github.com/ivanmaeder/finder-touch/
(⌘ + Shift + N creates new folders by the way.)
This I just published now, I use it multiple times a day: an iOS shortcut for emailing myself things.
https://redchamp.net/blog/email-me
A command-line script for bulk-renaming files (it lets you edit file/dir names inside a text editor).
https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv/
In Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?I wrote this to make renaming multiple files quicker/easier:
https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv
Basically it loads up the output of `ls` into an editor, then runs a `mv` command for each line.
Not something I use daily, but still handy.
In Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?Colour picker: https://sipapp.io/
Download videos from YouTube and other sources: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ (was the only way I could get a video from the BBC site recently)
Chrome extension for taking a screenshot of a full web page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c...
Shameless plugs:
Script for renaming multiple files at the same time: https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv
Button in macOS Finder for creating a file in the current folder: https://github.com/ivanmaeder/finder-touch
That last one written in AppleScript which is craaazy.
In Ask HN: What are you favorite tiny tools?One unix based utility that has saved me incredible amounts of time is 'vimv'.[1]
You run vimv and you get your pwd, in the editor, and you can edit it like a text file. Then just quit and save and all of your filename changes get committed to that directory.
It's an extremely fast way to do a bunch of random and irregular edits to a big directory full of files.
[1] https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv
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