Bug#706014: ITP: re-name -- mass rename tool using regular expression

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Samuelson 

[Joao Eriberto Mota Filho]
  Re-name [...] is a small and quick tool written in C so it's quicker
  than most rename tools written in shell scripts.

[citation needed]

I'm suspicious of this claim for two reasons.

- The obvious tool to compare with is 'prename' (mentioned up-thread),
  which we already ship, and that's not shell but Perl.  In terms of
  efficiency, this may be quite significant, as it uses the rename()
  system call, whereas a shell implementation would have to fork 'mv'
  for each file.

- In my experience and belief, the efficiency of a mass rename
  operation is dominated by the filesystem overhead.


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130425154929.gb4...@p12n.org

Bug#706014: ITP: re-name -- mass rename tool using regular expression

2013-04-23 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho eribe...@eriberto.pro.br

* Package name: re-name
  Version : 1.99.2
  Upstream Author : Andy Xuming xum...@users.sourceforge.net
* URL : http://rename.sf.net
* License : GPL3
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : mass rename tool using regular expression

 Re-name (regular expression (re)name) is a tool to rename files. It can
 change, lowercase and uppercase a batch of files, or modify their ownership.
 It is a small and quick tool  written in C so it's quicker than most rename
 tools written in shell scripts.
 .
 Rename is powered by the extended regular expression for searching and
 substituting string patterns in the file names.
 .
 The main features of rename are:
 .
   * Substitue strings in filenames.
   * Search and substitue strings in filenames by POSIX regular expressions.
   * Uppercase or lowercase filenames.
   * Support batch mode rename.
   * Recursively processing directories and subdirectories.
   * Support to read the filename list from a file.
   * Change ownership of files.
   * Safe mode: test before you go.


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: 
http://lists.debian.org/20130423142735.25967.52187.report...@libra.gabcmt.eb.mil.br