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@@ -65,4 +65,22 @@ ZZ " Save and quit lowercased our filenames, and all it took was 15 keypresses (that includes the enter key, and saving the file)! +## Safety + +Another advantage of `mmv` is that it’s a lot safer than your typical for-loop, +or embarassingly enough even most file renaming tools I find online (lol). What +do I mean by “safer”? Well consider that we want to make the following very +simple file renamings: + +``` +foo -> bar +bar -> foo +``` + +Most tools I’ve come across for renaming files will rename `foo` to `bar`, and +then _oops!_, the original `bar` file no longer exists and we just lost our +data! Even if you were to do this manually (imagine a lot more files) you would +need to go and move everything to a temporary directory, and move them back, and +it’s kind of just a pain to do manually. Luckily `mmv` handles this for you! + [1]: https://superuser.com/q/29111 |