Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 09:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Roberto

I'll go revisit the thread ;)

Regards

Clive