On gio, 13 gen 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>> I've just discovere mmv (GREAT) and noted that it is not present in the RPM
>> binary tree. Is it possible for Mandrake to add it please? It's very little and
>> useful too!
>>
>What is this? I've never heard of mmv... just curious. :-)
> John
in dos you can do:
ren file*.txt file*.asc
in unix this is not as simple, until now!
mmv is for this, infact now you can do it with
mmv "file*.txt" "file#1.asc"
it works even with multiple wildcards like
mmv "file*.*" "file#1.#2"
black magic! :-)
man mmv
MMV(1) MMV(1)
NAME
mmv - move/copy/append/link multiple files by wildcard
patterns
SYNOPSIS
mmv [-m|x|r|c|o|a|l|s] [-h] [-d|p] [-g|t] [-v|n] [from to]
DESCRIPTION
Mmv moves (or copies, appends, or links, as specified)
each source file matching a from pattern to the target
name specified by the to pattern. This multiple action is
performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of
files due to collisions of target names with existing
filenames or with other target names. Furthermore, before
doing anything, mmv attempts to detect any errors that
would result from the entire set of actions specified and
gives the user the choice of either proceeding by avoiding
the offending parts or aborting.
[..]
AUTHOR
Vladimir Lanin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bye
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Marco Ciampa
