Randal's columns (was Re: HOWTO: File Renaming and Directory Recursion)

2004-04-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Morbus" == Morbus Iff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Morbus> The script was mindlessly simple, and I felt it would be a good HOWTO Morbus> for the perl beginners crowd, if not to show some good code practices, Morbus> but also to counteract the . .. .. . "controversial" HOWTO that had Morbus>

Re: HOWTO: File Renaming and Directory Recursion

2004-04-01 Thread Morbus Iff
>> while (@files) { > >Are you sure that's not: > > for (@files) { Yup, "for" is right. An error in my memory recall. -- Morbus Iff ( evil is my sour flavor ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: aka

Re: HOWTO: File Renaming and Directory Recursion

2004-04-01 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 4/1/2004 7:05 PM, Morbus Iff wrote: # and here is that subroutine. it's nearly exactly # the same as our previous code, only this time, we # move into the directory that contains a file to # be renamed. this is actually a quick hack because # I knew this wouldn't be production-code: a more

Re: HOWTO: File Renaming and Directory Recursion

2004-04-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:05:51PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > Earlier this morning, a friend of mine asked me for a script that would > "given a list of files, replace underscores with spaces", to take this: > > Artist_Name-Track_Name.mp3 > > and rename it to this: > > Artist Name-Track Nam