There's renameutils[1] which has qmv And as someone else mentioned nnn integrates well with vidir which does exactly what you describe. In most distros it's in

There's renameutils[1] which has qmv And as someone else mentioned nnn integrates well with vidir which does exactly what you describe. In most distros it's installable through moreutils [2]. vidir uses $EDITOR , so it works with pretty much anything. [1] https://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/ https://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/ [2] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/