On 2/28/20, Fergus Daly wrote: > I am almost certain that the command > $ rename "anything" "AnyThing" *.ext > would alter the string from lc to uc as shown, anywhere it occurred in any > filename in *.ext in the current directory. > What I remember as past behaviour now fails, leaving he filename unaltered. > (Failure in much the same way as mv would fail if the similar attempt was > made.) > (Good old DOS command rename (or the abbreviation ren) used to achieve > multiple-rename in an easy manner that just eludes bash.) > Anyway: has something altered (and quite recently, i think), or am I just > mis-remembering the versatility of the command rename?
Try it with the '-v' option $ rename -v anything AnyThing *.ext `anything.ext' -> `AnyThing.ext' `xxanythingxx.ext' -> `xxAnyThingxx.ext' $ rename -v AnyThing anything *.exe rename: *.exe: not accessible: No such file or directory $ rename -v AnyThing anything *.ext `AnyThing.ext' -> `anything.ext' `xxAnyThingxx.ext' -> `xxanythingxx.ext' Lee -- 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
