trying here: root# mmv bash: mmv: command not found root#
Reason: I'm running my usual, minimalist distro! (Busybox does too many things on this.) You.. you lucky, decked-out full-installation people, you! But really, mmv looks great-- will have to install it. Thanks for the tip. - Mark -- https://twitter.com/linuxusergroup On 9/3/2015 at 10:36 PM, "Rick Moen" <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > >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 -- Shell programming is a 1950's jukebox - great if it has your song already. --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech