Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:03:23 +0100 From: Andrew Kotsopoulos <a.kotsopoulos@tue.nl> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "rename" shell command Message-ID: <4014F3FB.1030204@tue.nl>
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Dear FreeBSD I'm looking for the "rename" shell command for the macosx version of bsd. In redhat and possibly other linux distributions the command renames files and supports wildcards and multiple file conversions, as you most likely know. To be more precise here is the man page: ----- NAME rename - Rename files SYNOPSIS rename from to file... DESCRIPTION rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of from in their name by to. For example, given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands rename foo foo0 foo? rename foo foo0 foo?? will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And rename .htm .html *.htm will fix the extension of your html files. SEE ALSO mv(1) ---- If it exisits within the bsd distribution then where is it? If not, can you tell me why it does not exist? I suppose I could simply compile it from source, if I can find some source? Many thanks Andrew -- O O D r A n d r e w K o t s o p o u l o s O Dept of Electrical Engineering (Group EPE) \___/ Technical University of Eindhoven Post box 513 phone: +31 40 247 3566 5600MB Eindhoven fax: +31 40 243 4364 The Netherlands secratary: +31 40 247 2310
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