Meryl <[email protected]> writes:
> Thank You Ben, Owen, Daniel and James for your responses :D
>
> For some reason (unbeknown to this wee brain) the perl script chucked a
> wobbly: syntax error at line 4, near "0 rename"
>
> So I opted for Daniel's shell script instead. I'm not sure what you
> meant by 'harder' Daniel in
>> Alternately, in shell, you can do the same, but harder:
> the script worked nicely and I'm v pleased with the result.
Writing the shell version is harder than writing the Perl version, because you
have to take more care of quoting and variable expansion in it. Not such an
issue for you if you just use what I wrote, but it took me quite a few
mistakes over the years to be able to do that. ;)
Regards,
Daniel
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