Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:34:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Andrew Kotsopoulos <a.kotsopoulos@tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "rename" shell command Message-ID: <20040126113437.GA19625@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4014F3FB.1030204@tue.nl> References: <4014F3FB.1030204@tue.nl>
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:03:23PM +0100, Andrew Kotsopoulos wrote:
> I'm looking for the "rename" shell command for the macosx version of=20
> bsd. In redhat and possibly other linux distributions the command=20
> renames files and supports wildcards and multiple file conversions, as=20
> you most likely know. To be more precise here is the man page:
Interesting. Sounds like it would make a good port. However, check
out the misc/mmv port -- it sounds like it has very similar
functionality to the rename command you've been using.
Anyhow, it's a pretty trivial script to write. Here's a perl verion I
cooked up in a few minutes -- use with care as it has only had minimal
testing. Note too that the 'from' expression is actually a perl
regular expression, rather than a literal match.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$0 =3D~ s@.*/@@;
if (@ARGV < 3) {
die <<E_O_USAGE;
$0: Usage:
$0 from to file...
E_O_USAGE
} =20
$::from =3D shift @ARGV;
$::to =3D shift @ARGV;
foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
my $nfile;
($nfile =3D $file) =3D~ s/$::from/$::to/;
if ($nfile ne $file) {
rename $file, $nfile
or die "$0: Couldn't rename \"$file\" to \"$nfile\" -- $!\n";
}
}
#
# That's All Folks!
#
Cheers,
Matthew
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