Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title > Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title. Well... > As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and > DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand > *.txt files What exactly makes doing rename .txt .doc *.txt so exceptionally painful? OK, if the expanded command line exceeds the length limit, one might have to combine the above with something like xargs. But I feel neither pain with that nor the need to write a script or install KDE. Anyway, this gets purely academic since the OP already said that he could accomplish what he wanted to by using rename. Regards mks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
