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This sounds similar to 'vidir', which is available in Debian/Ubuntu in the package 'moreutils'. Indeed very useful for editing large directories.

• agumonkey 10y ago
  Or wdired mode in GNU emacs
• deleted 10y ago
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• david-given 10y ago
  That's amazing. I think I've been looking for this tool for... many, many years. Thanks!
• krylon 10y ago
  Dito for CentOS. Wow, this is really cool! Wish I had known about this sooner!
• bartvk 10y ago
  Interesting. It's packaged for macOS, too. Install Homebrew via https://brew.sh/ https://brew.sh/ then type $ brew install moreutils