image sequence stacks?

[cgene75]

I work in a fairly niche area. visual effects. we often have many image sequences in a single folder (for example, I'm currently looking at a folder that has 6000 files it in).

these are often grouped logically by with a common prefix (testimage_v01.####.jpg, and testimage_v02.####.jpg) where each image sequence can have some number of frames... for exmaple [1001-1241] (representing 10 seconds of video at 24 frames per second).

We have tools that glob these files into a single element that make dealing with all of them easier - for example a command called lss (list seqeuence):

> gene@tws10 [test_test | gene] 3d:$ lss
beach_water_v01.*.exr [2-116]
beach_water_v02.*.exr [2-116]
beach_water_v03.*.exr [2-116]
beach_water_v04.*.exr [2-116]

we also have tools to rename sequences, or offset them in time (remapping frame 1-100 -> 1001-1100), and deleting them.

I would love to either be able to invoke those tools in selected folders (part of a rigid directory structure), or get support for image stacks natively. AFAIK, no other gui file manager supports this currently. Any remote chance anyone else would find this handy?