On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:49 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: --snip-- > Of course, the difference between it and the lame MS-DOS version is that > you use a perl-compatible regexp to specify the rename scheme. Thus, if > you got and take 100 pictures with your digital camera and want to > change the default names (mine does something like DSCxxxx.JPG, where > the xxxx is one-up numbered), you specify: > > rename 's/DSC/Birthday2005-/' *.JPG > > It is really much nicer than manually renaming hundreds of files, which > I recall doing when I was an unfortunate Windows user.
Have you tried mmv at all? I've been using it for quite a while and I've found it invaluable. While the pattern matching isn't quite up to par with the power of a Perl regexp it's got quite a few options which make life a LOT easier. It can match files n-levels deep in a directory tree, arbitrarily move parts of a file-name around (e.g. rename foo-bar.jpg to bar-foo.jpg), and my favorite feature, uppercase or lowercase individual parts of a file-name. Quite a nice little tool. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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