Wednesday, March 14, 2007
A brief intro to Fezzik, the text editor based file renamer
http://code.google.com/p/fezzik/
I finally got around to writing a puny little app that I've been pining for once every 2 months for the last few years. It seemed that once in a while I'd need to rename a bunch of files (more than 10 but less than 100) in a way that didn't quite fit to a strict set of rules. The changes were mostly the same but there were enough discrepancies in the existing filenames that I couldn't just do it with a regular expression. I tried a few of the bulk renamers, but they didn't seem to handle the wishy-washy cases I run into, and they seem to have user interfaces that make me want to curl into a ball under my desk.
So I decided I needed a way to easily edit a whole directory listing of files in a text editor (TextPad to be precise, I can't live without Block Select Mode), and have the changes made when I close the editor. I finally wrote it and have dubbed it Fezzik. It adds a context menu item (or a SendTo item), and will work with most text editors (I think, tested with TextPad and NotePad++).
Documentation and a brief demo video are imminent.
I finally got around to writing a puny little app that I've been pining for once every 2 months for the last few years. It seemed that once in a while I'd need to rename a bunch of files (more than 10 but less than 100) in a way that didn't quite fit to a strict set of rules. The changes were mostly the same but there were enough discrepancies in the existing filenames that I couldn't just do it with a regular expression. I tried a few of the bulk renamers, but they didn't seem to handle the wishy-washy cases I run into, and they seem to have user interfaces that make me want to curl into a ball under my desk.
So I decided I needed a way to easily edit a whole directory listing of files in a text editor (TextPad to be precise, I can't live without Block Select Mode), and have the changes made when I close the editor. I finally wrote it and have dubbed it Fezzik. It adds a context menu item (or a SendTo item), and will work with most text editors (I think, tested with TextPad and NotePad++).
Documentation and a brief demo video are imminent.
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