Re: how to rename multiple files
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> Yes, but that's not all. Setting MATCH=*.jpg does not seem to trigger
> the globbing function in bash, to my surprise. The following does
> work, though:
>
> shopt -s nullglob
> MATCH=$(printf %s *.jpg)
> if [ -n "$MATCH" ]; then SOME=TRUE; else SOME=FALSE; fi
Ok, I realize this is about how to rename in a shell script, but...
Sure seems like this is one of those problems that Perl would make simple.
I'd probably call perl from procmail, split out the mime parts, create a
unique file name and perhaps update a database index and then set a flag
so a cron will see an update and generate a new web page using
Tempate-Toolkit...
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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
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