On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:46:50PM +1100, Andrew Greig wrote:
> Rename 6H9A0001.CR2 6J9A0001.CR2
> Rename 6H9A0002.CR2 6J9A0002.CR2
> Rename 6H9A0003.CR2 6J9A0003.CR2
> Rename 6H9A0004.CR2 6J9A0004.CR2
> to
> Rename 6H9A0085.CR2 6J9A0085.CR2
Use the perl rename utility (aka prename or file-rename), **NOT**
the rename aka rename.ul util in the util-linux package, which has
completely different command-line options and capabilities.
e.g.
rename -n 's/6H/6J/' *.CR2
The '-n' makes it a dry-run, showing what it would change if you let it.
To actually rename files, remove the '-n' or change it to '-v' for
verbose output.
BTW, perl rename is far more capable than trivial sed-like renames like this.
any perl code that modifies $_ can be used as the rename script.
If you're running a recent debian or similar, 'apt-get install rename' to
make sure you have the perl rename instead of rename.ul (on older versions
of debian, package was called libfile-rename-perl).
It's packaged for other distros too.
craig
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