Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:08:26 +0000 From: Jim Bow <jimbow@darq.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: batch rename Message-ID: <4782DB1A.4050800@darq.net> In-Reply-To: <aec9371b0801071603s459d3c11n3f80c407cb9ff872@mail.gmail.com> References: <2b98f2f70801042134x1af4f721s877677afde7151f5@mail.gmail.com> <aec9371b0801071603s459d3c11n3f80c407cb9ff872@mail.gmail.com>
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Jeff Laine wrote: > My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting > letters in their names. > The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or > write some shell-script? I found myself at this point once too, and then I discovered /usr/ports/sysutils/rename. Sure, its not as crazy as krename (it wont read any metadata), but it runs in a terminal, is written in C and supports extended regular expressions. JimBow
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