Allen Brown wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> > horst wrote:
> > 
> > > Let's say I want to make my digital images all lowercase:
> > >           mv *.JPJ *.jpg
> > 
> >     /usr/bin/rename .JPG .jpg *.JPG
> 
> I didn't know of rename.  That's really nice.  But according to the
> man page your example isn't right.  That should be
>       rename 's/\.JPG$/.jpg/' *.JPG
> 
> And similarly for the other examples you provided.

There are two different programs called rename.  I was talking about
the GNU rename utility.  You're talking about the Perl rename command
(written by Tom Christiansen when his office was just down the hall
from mine, FWIW).

I tested the BARFOO -> bare_foot example before I posted it, using
GNU rename.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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