padio

Zero pad numeric filenames

Turn a bunch of files like this:

file1.txt
file10.txt
file5.txt

and want them to be sorted like this:

file01.txt
file05.txt
file10.txt

you can run:

padio *.txt

Installation

Padio can be run on any system that includes Python 3 after installation with pip:

pip3 install padio

Or by downloading ./padio.py and placing it anywhere in your $PATH.

Note: I have not tested on Windows, but would welcome feedback or a patch

Usage

usage: padio [-h] [-l LENGTH] [-f] [-v] [-d] [-i REGEX] [--ignore-files IGNOREFILE [IGNOREFILE ...]] file [file ...]

Pads numbers in file names so they consistently align and sort

positional arguments:
  file                  Files to be renamed

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l LENGTH, --length LENGTH
                        Length of numbers after padding (default: auto)
  -f, --force           Force rename, even if file at destination exists
  -v, --verbose         Print all actions
  -d, --dry-run         Print actions only without modifying any file. Implies --verbose
  -i REGEX, --ignore REGEX
                        Regular expression used to ignore files matching the name
  --ignore-files IGNOREFILE [IGNOREFILE ...]
                        Files to ignore for renaming. Must add -- before positional arguments

Original repo

Originally hosted at https://git.iamthefij.com/iamthefij/padio.git