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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    About the same when you ask for a good GUI replacement for X and someone replies "just use the command line", like cheers for that men, not what I'm asking for.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I'd have recommended KRename personally. It uses some programming-esque stuff (format specifiers for stuff), but it's not exactly difficult to do advanced stuff with it.