Re: Dumb little utilities

[Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>]

And if you use zsh, you don't need to bother with mmv or rename, since
there's zmv.

> > Anyway, it's similar to the 'rename' command that someone else mentioned.
> > It renames multiple files like converting all the files in a directory
> > from upper to lower case
> 
>   mmv \* \#l1

zmv '(*)' '${(L)1}' 

> > or changing the extension of the *.c files to *.x.
> 
>   mmv \*.c \#1.x

zmv '(*).c' '$1.x'

or

zmv -W '*.c' '*.x'

or

alias ren='noglob zmv -W'
ren *.c *.x


I find the last preferable to the more cumbersome syntaxes of rename and
mmv.