It was your modifier term "perl" that confused me, particularly when the OS distribution was included. In retrospect, I can see why this made sense to you, but describing it as a "rename Perl script" would have helped. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On September 3, 2015 10:14:45 AM PDT, "Brian E. Lavender" <[email protected]> wrote: >Shell command that does the following. > >rename "s/^/foo/" *.txt > >It's on Debian. > >On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 10:15:34PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> Your question baffles me. >> >> The rename function is built-in to perl. >> >> There is also File::Copy if you are concerned about portability. >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go >Live... >> DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live >Go... >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. >Playing >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. >rocks...1k >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> On September 2, 2015 9:56:51 PM PDT, "Brian E. Lavender" ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >Anyone know where to the find the perl rename command on Fedora? >> > >> >brian >> >-- >> >Brian Lavender >> >http://www.brie.com/brian/ >> > >> >"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to >> >make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the >> >other >> >way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious >> >deficiencies." >> > >> >Professor C. A. R. Hoare >> >The 1980 Turing award lecture >> >_______________________________________________ >> >vox-tech mailing list >> >[email protected] >> >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vox-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > >-- >Brian Lavender >http://www.brie.com/brian/ > >"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to >make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the >other >way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious >deficiencies." > >Professor C. A. R. Hoare >The 1980 Turing award lecture >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
