Re: unable to rename a folder

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:11:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:47:35PM -0700, Dweeil Brock wrote:
> > trying to rename a folder and recieve the following error message:
> > 
> > Bare word "foldername" not allowed while "strict subs" in use
> 
> Don't use 'rename' to move a single directory; use 'mv'. See 'man
> rename' for what it does.

I knew rename was for something else but I never used it.  As I read how this
command works, it is cool.

   For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip the exten-
   sion, you might say

          rename 's/\.bak$//' *.bak

Perl expression is used here :)  AUTHOR: Larry Wall