Quoting Mark's tech help (markinda...@hush.com): > I'm a tad baffled by the usage of perl here. Some part of a learning > exercise for perl, or could one not just come up with a line of bash > commands.. a combination of mv and sed with a pipe &/or redirect?
I think this is yet another case, among countless others, where the very first response to querent needed to be some gentle form of 'What problem are you actually trying to solve?' P.S.: $ man 1 mmv MMV(1) NAME mmv - move/copy/append/link multiple files by wildcard patterns SYNOPSIS mmv [-m|x|r|c|o|a|l|s] [-h] [-d|p] [-g|t] [-v|n] [--] [from to] DESCRIPTION Mmv moves (or copies, appends, or links, as specified) each source file matching a from pattern to the target name specified by the to pattern. This multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with existing file- names or with other target names. Furthermore, before doing anything, mmv attempts to detect any errors that would result from the entire set of actions specified and gives the user the choice of either proceeding by avoiding the offending parts or aborting. mmv does support large files (LFS) but it does *NOT* support sparse files (i.e. it explodes them). [...] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech