Current State of the Art for bulk renaming files (Mac)?
I know there's been some discussion of this here, but 1) I can't find it and 2) things may have changed, so I'm asking again.
What's the current recommended tool for bulk renaming files in a ZK context? I want to experiment with this new bracket-based fogelzettel technique and to do so I want to bulk add bracketed categories based on search.
Need to have:
Change 202003251552 CLOCKS cool thing.md to 202003251552 {3} CLOCKS cool thing.md based on searching for CLOCKS in the title.
Would be nice to have, but not sure if feasible:
Search for every file that contains #clocks in the body and append a {3} after the UID in the title.
I feel like there was a wildly advanced renaming software that I think @ctietze mentioned that could do complex things like the latter. Did I just dream that?
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I use a tool called MassReplaceIt from http://www.hexmonkeysoftware.com/.
It is sophisticated and can use regex for finding a target and allows undoing if things go awry.
Works with file names or file contents.
It seems perfectly suited to this task.
Will Simpson
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Thanks @Will ! That's the one I was trying to remember!