moove - 🚚 Manipulate file names and locations

moove is a command line tool for renaming and moving files and directories using a text editor.

🎨 Features | 🚀 Usage | 📥 Getting started | 🌏 License

Features 🎨

• Displays file and directory names like ls in a text editor, and renames or moves them exactly as you edit them.
• A pre-compiled single executable without any dependencies.
• Supports Linux, Mac and Windows.
• Supports wildcard patterns, including Windows.

Caveats ⚠

• Given paths have to be convertible to UTF-8.
• Collisions are detected as much as possible, but not perfectly. Does not verify all paths such as hard links and symbolic links.

Usage 🚀

Usage: moove [OPTIONS] [PATHS]...

Arguments:
  [PATHS]...  Paths or wildcard patterns to move

Options:
  -v, --verbose                    Verbose output
  -s, --sort                       Sort in the natural order
  -a, --absolute                   Treat as absolute paths
  -d, --directory                  Directories themselves, not their contents
  -w, --with-hidden                Include hidden files
  -e, --exclude-pattern <PATTERN>  Exclude regular expression pattern
  -c, --copy                       Copy without moving
  -u, --dry-run                    Dry-run
  -o, --oops                       Abort in case of collision (prompt as default)
  -f, --force                      Overwrite existing files without prompting
  -F, --force-dir                  Overwrite existing directories without prompting (implies --force)
  -q, --quiet                      No output to stdout/strerr even if error
  -h, --help                       Print help
  -V, --version                    Print version

• Displays file and directory names like ls in a text editor.
• You can edit the list as you want to operate. The order of lines after editing corresponds to the original one. Empty lines will be ignored.
• Operations are canceled if you close the editor without saving.
• If a line starts with //, the file and directory (and its contents) will be removed regardless of modification of the remaining part of the line.
• Destination directories will be created automatically.
• In case of line number change or collision, asks whether to re-edit or abort. Aborts without asking if --oops is specified.
• With --force, an existing destination file (or symlink to a file) is overwritten without prompting. Errors if the destination is a directory or a symlink to a directory.
• With --force-dir, an existing destination directory (or symlink to a directory) is also overwritten: on move, the destination is removed and replaced; on copy, the contents are merged. Implies --force for file destinations. Errors if the source is a symlink to a directory.

Configuration 🎚

• Default command line options can be specified by the environment variable MOOVE_OPTIONS.
• The default editor is searched in the following order.
  • environment variable VISUAL
  • environment variable EDITOR
  • hardcoded lists
  • platform-specific generic file openers

Getting Started 📥

Pre-compiled binaries

• Download the archive for your platform from the latest release.
• Release assets are built automatically for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Installation

• Windows

  winget install moove

• cargo

  cargo install moove

Alternatives

• laurent22/massren
• itchyny/mmv

TODOs ✅

• Package for various platforms
• Exclude .gitignore option
• Logging
• Recursive option
• Maximum depth option
• Depth option

License 🌏

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
• MIT license or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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