Re: Smart version of mv ?

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

Paolo Pantaleo wrote:

> with MSDOS mv (or move, i don't remember the name) you can do
> mv *.c *.cpp
> that is a quite smart thing, i think :)
> 
> with Unix mv... you can't. You have to use find and sed (at least so i
> know)
> 
> Is there a nice program that can do things like:
> TheSmartMove "*.c" "*.cpp"

The perl package includes the rename command, which will do what you want
 $ rename s/\.c$/\.cpp/ *.c
and much more complicated things.

You can also test a substitution first with the -v -n options.