*- Ian Jackson wrote about "Re: File renamer"
| David Welton writes ("File renamer"):
| > Hi, a friend of mine wrote a thing to rename a bunch of files, say
| > *.jpg to *.gif. Yes, he realizes you can do the same thing with a
| > shell script, but he wrote this thing just the same, because it's
| > convenient.
| >
| > Does anyone know of anything similiar? That is not a .deb ?
| > Otherwise I'll package it just for fun:->
|
| A whole .deb for such a simple problem seems overkill. The
| file/manpage below is what I use. It was in the Perl4 distribution.
| Presumably perl5 comes with it too in the source. I have it as
| /usr/local/bin/rename.
|
There is also the mmv package
Package: mmv
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 43
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.01b-6
Depends: libc6
Description: Move/Copy/Append/Link multiple files
mmv is a program to move/copy/append/link multiple files
according to a set of wildcard patterns. This multiple action is
performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to
collisions of target names with existing filenames or with other
target names.
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Brian
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