Reference capture groups inside exec

[BasixKOR]

I'd like to rename a bulk of files using fd but I'd like to use some parts of the original filename in the renamed filenames.

Could we add something like:

fd '(\d+)' -X mv {} something-{1}

[sharkdp]

Looks like you might be interested in the discussion/draft in #1118

[BasixKOR]

Oops, I haven't looked into PRs. No wonder why issue search yielded no results... I'll keep this issue for discoverability and tracking purposes, but feel free to close it if you don't think it's needed.

[cclifford]

I would also like a feature like this, but I have a different use case. I do data science at a university and use fd to select data files from a large directory hierarchy of related data. The file paths often contain metadata like the name of the sensor it came from. We usually need to pass metadata from the path to our data processing scripts, so I usually execute a little bash wrapper script to parse it out and call the script.

Anyway, there are use cases where information from the file path needs to be used in conjunction with the file itself, other than renaming.