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<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |subcat=Archiving }} &#039;&#039;&#039;rename helper&#039;&#039;&#039; by KeyJ (Martin Fiedler) is a <a href="/wiki/Python" title="Python">Python</a> script that helps in replicating file rename operations across machines Examp...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |subcat=Archiving<br /> }}<br /> <br /> <br /> '''rename helper''' by KeyJ (Martin Fiedler) is a [[Python]] script that helps in replicating file rename operations across machines<br /> <br /> Example: Alice has a directory containing some files. It gives a copy of these files to Bob. Afterwards, she renames the files to follow a different nomenclature. Bob wants to have these new file names, too, but he doesn't want to copy the files again. So, what Alice does is:<br /> <br /> * %prog -R $directory &gt;list.txt<br /> <br /> She then sends list.txt to Bob, who does:<br /> <br /> * %prog -l list.txt -R $directory<br /> <br /> to rename his copies of the files to the new names.<br /> <br /> Technically this works by generating a list file that contains the new name (encoded in platform-neutral UTF-8) and a hash of each file's size as well as samples from the beginning, mid and end of the data. It's not a full data hash, but enough to work in 99.9% of all situations.<br /> <br /> Superseded by [[dirpatch]]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [https://keyj.emphy.de/projects/tools-scripts/ Homepage]</div>

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