James Peter Mitchell
Rene Projects Command Line Program Linux Posted April 17, 2025 Updated December 18, 2025

Overview

A powerful, minimalist file auto-namer.

Features

  • Rename multiple files at once
  • Highly interactive terminal-based user interface
  • Intuitive, and powerful name templating system

Development

Rene is a project I began in Spring 2025. At that time I had not done a lot of recent C++ development and I wanted a small project to start writing code again. It also became an opportunity to learn about advanced terminal programming and what is possible using escape sequences.

I used the FTXUI TUI library, but I also wrote a lot of my own custom TUI code, and added a lot of it to my personal code library. UT

Screenshots

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