On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/06/05 00:10), Carl Fink wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:49 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > > Of course, the difference between it and the lame MS-DOS version is that > > > > you use a perl-compatible regexp to specify the rename scheme ... > > > > [snip] > > > > > Have you tried mmv at all? ... > > > > [more snipping] > > > > For someone like me who never learned regexps, krename works fine. > > Please forgive a dumb question. Why would you use 'rename' rather 'mv'? > > Thanks > > Clive > Read a little higher up in this thread. Since rename is part of perl, it takes a perl-compatible regexp to apply to whichever files you want. Say, for example, you have a directory full (500) of files you exported from OpenOffice as RTF format, but you want to rename them to DOC files so that the Windows users don't get confused. rename 's/rtf$/doc/' *.rtf Of course, you can use an arbitrary regexp. It is really nice for large renaming jobs. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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