On 10/24/2021 10:29 AM, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:
I might be wrong but: The Cygwin implementation of rename seems completely different from "the" (my) Linux version. (Almost unique? Otherwise the matching in Cygwin of all syntax - vocab, switches, outcomes - to Linux, seems almost perfect.) Can I rename a set of files *.d (say) as filename.d -> XXfilename.d? In Linux this would be achieved by $ rename 's/^/XX/g' ./*.d whereas in Cygwin $ rename ^ XX *.d (and all similar attempts) fails. Thank you.
You're confusing perl-rename with util-linu rename. The former, which seems to be what you want, can be installed using cpan (install File::Rename), assuming you have perl installed. It will put its rename command in /usr/local/bin, presumably taking precedence over the util-linux one in /usr/bin. It further seems that "normally" these two have different names, like rename.ul and prename, and /etc/alternatives is used to set up the rename command. This required some web searching to determine ... Cheers - Eliot -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
