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Ability to specify an order for renaming files

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Hi there! Thanks for this awesome lib 😄

I’m trying to prefix files in a folder with indexes but I would like to be able to do it in a specific order, e.g.: in order of size, addition date, etc…

I would be willing to work in such a feature and submit a PR if you think it’s a good idea! I believe we could use Node’s fs.Stats Class properties to be able to specify an order-by property and do the ordering before mapping over the files array.

What do you think about this?

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  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)

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75lbcommented, Jun 14, 2018

Work on this feature is in progress. In the next version you will be able to supply a file list via stdin, giving you full control over the files processed and their order. In this example, input comes from the output of find via sort:

$ find . | sort --reverse | renamer --find one --replace two

For the most precision, you could hand-roll a file containing one filename per line and pipe it into renamer.

$ cat file-list.txt | renamer --find one --replace two
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ebastidascommented, Jan 7, 2018

@tibuurcio would appreciate a lot this new feature!

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