On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 09:45:49AM +1100, luv-main wrote:
>
> Dunno if slackware has it packaged, but the perl-based rename command is
> available from https://metacpan.org/release/File-Rename

Thanks but no thanks. Slackware rename is part of util-linux.
>
> On Ubuntu, "apt-get install rename".
>
Tried that, don't like it. For a beginner, the util-linux one is much simpler,
this from the man page:

> EXAMPLES
>        Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
>
>               rename foo foo0 foo?
>               rename foo foo0 foo??
>
>        will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278.  And
>
>               rename .htm .html *.htm
>
>        will fix the extension of your html files.

No need to understand sed :)

Cheers ... Duncan.
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