One program I missed when I moved from Windows to Linux was Freename - http://freename.sourceforge.net/ http://freename.sourceforge.net/ - which does exactly th

One program I missed when I moved from Windows to Linux was Freename - http://freename.sourceforge.net/ http://freename.sourceforge.net/ - which does exactly this. My solution was a bit hackier, a bash script that did spit out a bunch of lines for each file in a directory, each with "(mv|cp) 'foo.bar' ''", ready for me to edit and then paste back into a terminal window.