Szyszka

Szyszka is a simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer.

Features

• Written in Rust
• Available for Linux, Mac and Windows
• Simple GUI created using GTK3
• Multiple rules which can be freely combined:
  • Replace text
  • Trim text
  • Add text
  • Add numbers
  • Purge text
  • Change letters to upper/lowercase
  • Custom rules
• Ability to edit, reorder rules and results
• Handle even hundreds thousands of records

Requirements

Linux

You need to install GTK (it should be available by default on most distributions) and the canberra-gtk-module.

sudo apt install libgtk3-dev libcanberra-gtk-module

MacOS (not tested)

You need to install GTK using brew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install rust gtk+3

Windows

The released zip file contains all dependencies, so it work on Windows 7 SP1+.
If you want to, you can install the GTK runtime from https://github.com/tschoonj/GTK-for-Windows-Runtime-Environment-Installer/releases, ensure that its environment variables are set properly and run Szyszka from anywhere.

Installation

Precompiled Binaries

Available at https://github.com/qarmin/szyszka/releases

Snap

https://snapcraft.io/szyszka

snap install szyszka
sudo snap connect szyszka:removable-media # Allows to see files on external devices

Flatpak

TODO

Cargo/Crates.io

https://crates.io/crates/szyszka

cargo install szyszka

Gentoo Linux

szyszka is available on Gentoo's GURU overlay

emerge -av gui-apps/szyszka

Future work

• Adding Regex support
• Saving/loading presets
• Trim x number of characters

Contribution

Contributions are very welcome - bug reports, pull requests, testing etc.
When creating or modifying existing rules, don't forget about updating/adding tests!

Name

Szyszka is Polish word which means Pinecone.

Why such a strange name?

Would you remember another app name like Rename Files Ultra?
Probably not.
But will you remember name Szyszka?
Well... probably also not, but when you hear this name, you will instantly think of this app.

Why?

I know that on Linux, which I primarily use, there is a lot of good file renamers (and even more on Windows), but I couldn't find any that would suit my needs. Available apps install a lot of dependencies, work slowly or just have a very bloated UI.

If you want very simple apps without too much of features, look at Bulky, Thunar Bulk Rename or Nautilus Renamer.

License

MIT