RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

[virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Frodo Baggins wrote:
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> In debian dist there is a perl scrip called
> rename, which allows you to transform your filenames as you
> please:). For instance, to transform ONE.HTM, TWO.HTM, THREE.HTM into 
> one.html, two.html, three.html you write:
> 
> rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/;s/\.htm$/.html/g' *.HTM
> 
> to just transform all names from uppercase to lowercase you can use
> 
> rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
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This: 

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rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/;s/\.htm$/.html/g' *.HTM
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looks very very 
BEATIFUL 
to my eyes!

(I'm an old matchematician, besides that sanskrit, Japanese and Chinse
scholar as well, I've studied Buddhism for some years.)

I wanted to learn Perl after seeing this command. 

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But, ALAS!  

My box doesn't know the 'rename' command yet. 
In which package is that command available? 

hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi

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