Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:43:27 -0800 From: Hal Pomeranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Subject: Copying, moving, whatever... using wildcards in destination : wc2fn.py
Actually there is a perl 'rename' program in many packages --I suggest to read the documentation of it and decide for yourself how 'friendly' it'susage seems to you :-) // i.e. I do read documentations
I've been using the Perl rename program that Horst is alluding to for some time now and it does most things I need it to do. One feature that I did add in my own version of the script (attached below) is a "-n" switch to have the script tell me what it would do with my arguments, but not actually do the renaming. This allows me to test my syntax before actually changing any file names.
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This is great -- we are finally talking and exchanging code ! Hal, thanks for sharing your front-end to rename.
Sorry, but I would consider you as one of the 'distinguished veterans of regular expressions' as referred to in my original message (hey, accept it or not -- it's not a bad sticker :-)
Now how would you transfer the perl's 'rename' to a perl's 'copy' (using destination replacement), or to a perl's anyThing source-to-destination ?
My point was to have such a tool in place as a shell utility; with hooks to (or wraps to) 'cp' 'mv' 'orWhatever'. This can be done in python, perl, *sh, or C.
I may have made a mistake (=offending people), by pushing python as a language to implement such a tool... Hey, if your favorite language has a better/different implementation, let us know !
- Horst
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