Re: Bug#706014: ITP: re-name -- mass rename tool using regular expression
On 23/04/13 15:27, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho wrote:
> Re-name (regular expression (re)name) is a tool to rename files. It can
> change, lowercase and uppercase a batch of files, or modify their ownership.
Is this significantly better than the rename(1) (aka prename(1)) tool
that's supplied with Perl, which is Priority:standard on Debian?
(rename(1) uses Perl, not POSIX, regular expressions - but Perl regular
expressions are somewhat more internally-consistent than POSIX regular
expressions, and closely resemble the "Perl-compatible" regular
expressions used by Python, Javascript, GLib, Exim, etc.)
Changing ownership and built-in recursion look like features that
rename(1) doesn't have, but find + xargs + rename provide those.
S
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