RE: Larry's filename fixer

2009-10-19 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Mark Wagner On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 15:38, Felix Dorner felix...@web.de wrote: I did the best book purchase in years: The Perl Cookbook. They have an example that seems to come right from Larry Wall himself. And I don't get it. I can use it but I don't understand why it works with

Re: Larry's filename fixer

2009-10-16 Thread Mark Wagner
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 15:38, Felix Dorner felix...@web.de wrote: Hi, I did the best book purchase in years: The Perl Cookbook. They have an example that seems to come right from Larry Wall himself. And I don't get it. I can use it but I don't understand why it works with wildcards. $op =

Re: Larry's filename fixer

2009-10-14 Thread Shawn H Corey
Felix Dorner wrote: Hi, I did the best book purchase in years: The Perl Cookbook. They have an example that seems to come right from Larry Wall himself. And I don't get it. I can use it but I don't understand why it works with wildcards. $op = shift or die Usage: rename expr [files]\n;

RE: Larry's filename fixer

2009-10-14 Thread David Christensen
felix_do wrote: I did the best book purchase in years: The Perl Cookbook. They have an example that seems to come right from Larry Wall himself. And I don't get it. I can use it but I don't understand why it works with wildcards. $op = shift or die Usage: rename expr [files]\n; chomp (@ARGV =

Re: Larry's filename fixer

2009-10-14 Thread Jim Gibson
On 10/14/09 Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:38 PM, Felix Dorner felix...@web.de scribbled: Hi, I did the best book purchase in years: The Perl Cookbook. They have an example that seems to come right from Larry Wall himself. And I don't get it. I can use it but I don't understand why it works with