Hi Chime, all, Am 20.02.2026 um 06:45 schrieb Chime Hart:
Hi David: You mention "rename" when I was in DOS they had an "ren" which I wish I had in Debian, as it handled wild-cards really well. I could type ren *.txt *.cnn
Which is because the DOS shell did not do the wildcard expansion but the ren command did. Well, if you're living in a world of 8.3 filenames, short command line length limits, and no history of powerfull shell programs...
Sure wish we had something simple like that. Thanks in advance
Have a look at the program mmv. The alternative, of course, is to just get used to complex shell commands where you just loop through things.
Cheers, Arno
Chime
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