I am not pro-GUI, just providing a possible solution the OP article didn't mention. For the automation part, yes it's going to need scripts, but can your oneli

I am not pro-GUI, just providing a possible solution the OP article didn't mention. For the automation part, yes it's going to need scripts, but can your oneliner script handle this file name like this? -\;?.txt I think using the best tools suited for the task. If you need scripts to do the job, use scripts, if just few simple clicks, I don't want to bother find exec xargs pipe here and there.