Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:47:58 +0100 (CET) From: Cordula's Web <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: a.kotsopoulos@tue.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "rename" shell command Message-ID: <20040126144758.56F0740824@fw.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <4014F3FB.1030204@tue.nl> (message from Andrew Kotsopoulos on Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:03:23 %2B0100) References: <4014F3FB.1030204@tue.nl>
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> 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:
Here's a script in perl. Use like this:
### Append .bak to all *.c files
$ rename '$_ .= ".bak"' *.c
### Remove .bak from all *.c.bak files
$ rename 's/\.bak$//' *.c.bak
### Convert to lowercase, but not for Makefile
$ rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/ unless /^Makefile/' *
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# rename -- Larry's filename fixer
$op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n";
chomp(@ARGV = <STDIN>) unless @ARGV;
for (@ARGV) {
$was = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}
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