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[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While it’s not a replacement for an existing tool and isn’t in your list, nnn is very helpful in many cases, especially bulk renames and reorganizations.

Can you give an example on the reorganization benefits with nnn? I am using it myself but I still feel like a noob with it.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, I did a whole asciinema demonstration to show you, but it was getting tedious. It started to turn into a whole tutorial, and I really didn't want to go there. That's why it's taken so long for me to reply.

But there are three things I do with nnn:

  • move things. I use the tabs (1-4) to open different directories, space-select multiple items, and 'v' to move selected items to directories
  • bulk rename. Again, space-select and ctrl-r to bulk rename. Often, I don't even select, I just 'R' to bulk rename the whole directory. This opens my text editor with all of the file/Dir names; edit freely, save, exit, and nnn renames whatever changed.
  • move/copy to remote locations. With 'c' nnn can mount a remote directory over ssh in a tab, and it works just like a local directory, with copying, moving, and renaming seamlessly between tabs.

I don't "live" in nnn; it's a tool I open when I want to do certain things - it's fast enough to use this way. But you certainly could, since nnn can fork shell processes in selected directories.

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

The last point is new to me, will check it out, thank you!