On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Bob Miller wrote:

> 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).

In that case I think it best to blacklist them both.  Two programs
that have the same name but which are incompatible.  Muy mal.

> I tested the BARFOO -> bare_foot example before I posted it, using
> GNU rename.
> -- 
> Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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