There's vidir in debian's moreutils package which does pretty much exactly that. Check all also all the other tools from that package: https://manpages.debian.

There's vidir in debian's moreutils package which does pretty much exactly that. Check all also all the other tools from that package: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/moreutils/index.html https://manpages.debian.org/buster/moreutils/index.html The package's tagline is "collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago, when Unix was young", so pretty relevant to the whole topic.