Re: How to rename files to numbers in Eshell?

[Michael Heerdegen]

"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> writes:

> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> > Will it work on marked files?
>
> Never had that use case, but interesting question.  I tried:
>
>     ^\*\(.*\)[^ ]+jpg → \1\,(1+ \#).jpg
>
> However, that doesn’t work because the part before the file name is not
> editable:
>
>     Replaced 0 occurrences (skipped 3 read-only)
>
> I had three files selected.

One working method is: limit the buffer to the marked files, e.g. with t
(`dired-toggle-marks') and k (`dired-do-kill-lines').  g
(`revert-buffer') to get the killed lines back when done.  k only
affects display, it doesn't perform any file operation.

Some third party packages allow to display marked files in a fresh dired
buffer.

Michael.