Try vidir from moreutils (or its improved version, https://github.com/bulletmark/edir https://github.com/bulletmark/edir ). It opens the list of filenames in a

Try vidir from moreutils (or its improved version, https://github.com/bulletmark/edir https://github.com/bulletmark/edir ). It opens the list of filenames in a given directory (or set of files passed on cmdline) in an editor of your choice, and then you use your editor to rename them; the changes get applied when your editor is closed.