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Hi, I was hoping you could create a release for this really awesome tool. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/managing-releases-in-a-repository

Macos Mojave, version 1.601, installed via homebrew.

$ rename -n -N 10 's/.*/V1D2E$N.mkv/' *.mkv
Error: unparseable counter format 10

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$ rename -n -N 010 's/.*/V1D2E$N.mkv/' *.mkv
'title_t00.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E010.mkv'
'title_t01.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E011.mkv'
'title_t02.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E012.mkv'
'title_t03.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E013.mkv'
'title_t04.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E014.mkv'
'title_t05.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E015.mkv'
'title_t06.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E016.mkv'
'title_t07.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E017.mkv'
'title_t08.mkv' would be renamed to 'V1D2E018.mkv'

Man page says:

$N A counter that increments for each file in the list. By default, counts up from 1.

The "-N" switch takes a template that specifies the padding and starting value of $N; see "Switches".

Expected behaviour:

Providing a parameter like 10 implies the starting value of $N should be 10 and there should be no zero padding.

Let's say I have a file called bob’s.txt. I run prename on it and get:

• prename -n --noctrl bob’s.txt
'bob’s.txt' would be renamed to 'bob�_s.txt'

Actually running the command would result in the file being named 62 6f 62 E2 5F 73 2E 74 78 74, which is invalid UTF-8 because of the E2 byte. I don't think this should happen.

--delete and --delete-all is listed in the usage syntax description on the top, in the man pages, but it isn't documented later on :)

i know its packaged on homebrew on Macos. is it anywhere else?

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• I'm writing a small (fix-file-names.sh), that's how I end up with all these edge cases. I even managed to find this (I think) small bug related to as close to the edge you can get an edge case (rename gave up) :

Of course, it's playing dirty serving rename a diet of filenames that only consists of the most impossible-to-handle characters: '$' and '/' and '*' and such... but it's apparently perfectly valid file names in Finder. I work as a consultant working exclusively with networked macOS and iOS boxes around town, and nothing shocks me anymore - if it can be typed, it will end up in a file or folder name sooner or later. And, somewhere along the way, backblaze, rsync, time machine, xar or ditto or even more probably: one of my shell glue scripts, one of those are going to get thrown way off balance by that ' / ' or ' /" ' ...

Don't know if its worth spending the time to band-aid these incredible corner cases, but now at least you are aware of a few perfect 90.000 degree corner cases.

Perhaps you have to go the route of identifying the inode of the file/folder and calling dd(1) [sp?] to zero-out the corresponding parts in the directory?

Anyways.. thanks for a great utility! It's hard at work over here in Oslo, Norway.

//haakon

👋 Just found this repo does not have any license, it would be good to add OSI-approved one, https://spdx.org/licenses/

Some popular license choice would be:

• MIT
• Apache-2.0
• BSD-3-Clause

Command-line says more than words:

$ touch UPPERCASE
$ rename -c UPPERCASE
'UPPERCASE' not renamed: 'uppercase' already exists

This was on macOS 12.3.1 on a case-insensitive APFS filesystem.

It would be great if the lower case renaming would work natively. Currently I have to make a wrapper in my renaming script for macOS to rename to a temporary file.

A workaround currently exist by forcing an overwrite

$ rename -c -f UPPERCASE

The output of prename -h is

Usage:
    rename [switches|transforms] [files]

    Switches:

    -0/--null (when reading from STDIN)
    -f/--force or -i/--interactive (proceed or prompt when overwriting)
Wide character in print at /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/Pod/Text.pm line 303.
    -g/--glob (expand "*" etc. in filenames, useful in Windows™ CMD.EXE)
    -k/--backwards/--reverse-order
    -l/--symlink or -L/--hardlink
    -M/--use=Module
    -n/--just-print/--dry-run
    -N/--counter-format
    -p/--mkpath/--make-dirs
    --stdin/--no-stdin
    -t/--sort-time
    -T/--transcode=encoding
    -v/--verbose

    Transforms, applied sequentially:

    -a/--append=str
    -A/--prepend=str
    -c/--lower-case
    -C/--upper-case
    -d/--delete=str
    -D/--delete-all=str
    -e/--expr=code
    -P/--pipe=cmd
    -s/--subst from to
    -S/--subst-all from to
    -x/--remove-extension
    -X/--keep-extension
    -z/--sanitize
    --camelcase --urlesc --nows --rews --noctrl --nometa --trim (see manual)

Is there a way to fix the Wide character in print at /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/Pod/Text.pm line 303? I assume it's related to the (tm) that is printed.