On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:15:59AM -0500, Jim Baxter a ecrit:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there a way to rename all the files in a directory the end with .123
> > to end with .src ?
>
> Several, actually:
>
> You can use the rename program from the util-linux rpm and use it:
> rename ".123" ".src" *.123
>
> You can use Larry Wall's rename script, written in Perl:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # rename - Larry's filename mixer
> $op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n";
> chomp(@ARGV = <STDIN>) unless @ARGV;
> for (@ARGV) {
> $was = $_;
> eval $op;
> die $@ if$@;
> rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
> }
>
> rename "s/123$/src/" *.123
or you can just take advantage of the bash shell, to wit:
for i in *.123 ; do
> prefix=$(basename $i .123)
> mv $i $prefix.src (use "mv -i" if you want to be prompted)
> done
it's not at all clear that one wants to invoke perl when the shell
will do it all.
rday
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