On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 09:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (18/06/05 00:10), Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:49 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 ... > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > Have you tried mmv at all? ... > > > > > > [more snipping] > > > > > > For someone like me who never learned regexps, krename works fine. > > > > Please forgive a dumb question. Why would you use 'rename' rather 'mv'? > > > > Thanks > > > > Clive > > > > Read a little higher up in this thread. Since rename is part of perl, > it takes a perl-compatible regexp to apply to whichever files you want. > Say, for example, you have a directory full (500) of files you exported > from OpenOffice as RTF format, but you want to rename them to DOC files > so that the Windows users don't get confused. > > rename 's/rtf$/doc/' *.rtf > > Of course, you can use an arbitrary regexp. It is really nice for large > renaming jobs.
Thanks Roberto I'll go revisit the thread ;) Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
