| From: Ron / BCLUG via talk <[email protected]>
| How does `rename` (a Perl program, I believe?) handle globbing and pathname
| expansion?
|
|
| i.e. in a folder with 3 files: one.sh, two.sh, file.tar, typing:
|
| rename *.sh *
|
| means rename gets passed these parameters:
|
| one.sh two.sh one.sh two.sh file.tar
The DOS ren command is very simple.
So too is the Unix Utilities one included in Fedora by default.
rename [options] expression replacement file...
The expression and replacement are simple strings, not patterns.
There are options like --all and --last that affect where the expression
can be matched.
What you want is
rename .sh '' *.sh
which means
for each filename matched by *.sh
change every occurrence of ".sh" in its name
to '' (empty)
I think that regular expressions in at least "expression" would be nice.
I'd often use ^ or $, to prevent surprises.
So the perl-based version might be more useful.
But I so rarely use rename that I have to read the man page each time.
Once or twice a year.
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