This build is directly sourced from the master branch in active development. As such, it may include experimental features and potential bugs.

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Bug fix for Windows: You can now use relative paths in --target-dir and --replace.

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• Fix UNC paths bug in Windows

• Fix natural sort bug.
• Improve target changing error message.
• Add --include flag for targeting specific files.
• Improve diacritics transformation ({.di}).
• Add Unicode normalization transform variable ({.norm}).
• Fix crash when using capture variable indices.

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Fix bug caused by space trimming in --find, --replace, --exclude, and --exclude-dir.

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Fix bug when using commas in find or replace strings

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This is a patch release to update the Go module to v2. It contains no new features.

To read more about 2.0.0

Please see: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2/releases/tag/v2.0.0

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New features

• Add natural sort option for sorting filenames containing numbers in a natural way.
• Add ability to extract double extensions like .tar.gz using {2ext}.
• Add --exiftool-opts to customize Exiftool's output.
• Add --exclude-dir flag for excluding whole directories when matching files.
• Add ability to specify a custom pattern when fixing conflicts (--fix-conflicts-pattern).
• Add support for file pair renaming with --pair and --pair-order.
• Add --target-dir option for specifying a target directory for renamed files.
• Add --clean option for cleaning up empty directories after renaming.
• Add ability to sort files based on arbitrary input using --sort and --sort-var.
• Add ability to apply sorting per directory with --sort-per-dir.
• Add ability to reset an index when recursing into a new directory with --reset-index-per-dir.

Enhancements

• Significant performance improvements (up to ~3x faster than the previous version).
• Improve conflict detection by adding validations for:
  • When the source file is not found.
  • When the target name changes later in the same operation.
• Clean up output reporting.
• Improvements to --undo.
• Improve CSV renaming implementation.
• Improve help messages and documentation.

Bug fixes

• Fix status reporting for unchanged files.
• Fix dotfiles being regarded as hidden in Windows.
• Fix piping file arguments from external commands.
• Fix some Windows-specific bugs with CSV renaming.

Deprecations / Removals

• Remove random variables.
• Remove simple mode.

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• Improve performance in dry-run mode (due to table rendering).
• Fix issue where files could be overwritten when --fix-conflicts is used.

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• Simple mode now prompts before executing.
• You can now use capture variables with indexing.
• Syntax for string transformation has been improved and simplified.
• JSON support has been added.
• Simplify variables syntax.
• Add ability to extract date from arbitrary strings.
• Improve support for case insensitive filesystems.
• Indexing fixes and syntax updates.