Re: mv multiple files w/wildcard

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 01:20:02PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> 
> I have a number of subdirectories where I have files with - such as 
> name - title.txt and I wish to convert them to:
> name: title.txt
> 
> In bash I tried:
> 
> for i in *-*;do mv $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/ - /:/'`'done 
> 
> but this gives me an error about moving multiple files and needing a directory
> 
> 
> I also tried on e-line perl script
> 
> perl -we '($new=$_) =~tr/\s-\s/:\s/ && rename _$,$new'
> 
> but I get uninitialized value errors.  Any help on either of these methods to 
> rename files would be appreciated. Also, how would I use these for multiple subdirectories at once?

Look at 'rename':

   rename 's/\s-\s/: /' *

(Note that you don't want \s in the right hand side of a s///, it won't
put a space in like you seem to think... it will put in the letter 's'.)

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