Re: File renamer

1998-10-08 Thread Ian Jackson
David Welton writes ("File renamer"): > Hi, a friend of mine wrote a thing to rename a bunch of files, say > *.jpg to *.gif. Yes, he realizes you can do the same thing with a > shell script, but he wrote this thing just the same, because it's > convenient. >

Re: File renamer

1998-10-08 Thread servis
*- Ian Jackson wrote about "Re: File renamer" | David Welton writes ("File renamer"): | > Hi, a friend of mine wrote a thing to rename a bunch of files, say | > *.jpg to *.gif. Yes, he realizes you can do the same thing with a | > shell script, but he wrote this thin

Re: File renamer

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:39:11PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > David Welton writes ("File renamer"): > > Hi, a friend of mine wrote a thing to rename a bunch of files, say > > *.jpg to *.gif. Yes, he realizes you can do the same thing with a > > shell script, but he

Re: File renamer

1998-10-10 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ian Jackson, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >A whole .deb for such a simple problem seems overkill. The >file/manpage below is what I use. It was in the Perl4 distribution. >Presumably perl5 comes with it too in the source. I have it as >/usr/lo