Bug#584850: Provide better diagnostic for directories [patch]

2012-08-31 Thread Andrea Ranieri
After two years, this bug is still there (package mmv 1.01b-15 on Ubuntu 12.04 amd64). This is a serious usability issue: I don't use mmv so frequently to remember that the "-r" option is needed to rename directories, so every time I lose several minutes to try to understand what's wrong with my ma

Bug#584850: Provide better diagnostic for directories [patch]

2010-06-06 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Package: mmv Version: 1.01b-15 I just tried to rename a bunch of directories: $ mmv -v "DSide-*" "DSide #1" DSide-* -> DSide #1 : no match. Nothing done. This is completely unhelpful, as the error "no match" seems to indicate the match string was wrong. Only after many fruitless attempts