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DaveP1	2009-12-03 , 16:51
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Originally Posted by Big Phat Jan

The time you're talking about wasting is really negligible (imho). At the most a couple of days of actual use to get the basics. It'll pay you back in spades when you want to rename hundreds of files in a photo album (for example).

If you spend a lot of time in the command line, it becomes second nature. If you don't, it becomes something you have to research each time you use it.

Your file rename is a good example. If you do it in a command line, you get one shot and you better have each parameter exactly correct. If you do it right, it's lightning fast. If you don't, you have a mess to fix.

If you use a program like Métamorphose you can play with the parameters and preview the changes before executing them. It also checks for file name errors that result from the renaming. You can also do fancier stuff like pulling data out of EXIF and ID3 tags.

P.S. Métamorphose can be found at http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/
Métamorphose is written in Python, with Python source and a deb package available. Anyone want to port it?

Last edited by DaveP1; 2009-12-03 at 16:53.

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