On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/09/2014 16:43, Dat Head wrote: >> >> Cygwin 1.7.30-1 >> >> $ ls -l *-fixed.flac >> -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 a-fixed.flac >> -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 b-fixed.flac >> >> $ rename '-fixed' '' *-fixed.flac >> rename: unknown option -- f > > > you need to tell rename that the options are ended with -- > > $ rename -- '-fixed' '' *-fixed.flac > > $ ls *flac > a.flac b.flac
thanx for the tip, haven't had to use that since old days of "startx clientopts -- serveropts &" but yet again I'm roped with having to wrap another case statement around pieces of scripts for cygwin specific items (because the same syntax of "rename --" doesn't work on redhat linux or another distro a friend tried for me) i'm not complaining, i love cygwin! that is a quite old version of util-linux I wonder does anyone know the factors involved in staying with that one? (everything else is mostly so wonderfully almost bleeding edge [which I like!]) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
