Re: mv multiple files w/wildcard

[Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za>]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 06:13:50PM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> 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

> 
> Look at 'rename':
> 
>    rename 's/\s-\s/: /' *
> 

or maybe mmv

Johann
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