[brlug-general] Script help

-ray ray at ops.selu.edu
Wed May 30 11:27:55 CDT 2007


On Wed, 30 May 2007, Tim Fournet wrote:

> The equivalent using the 'rename' command would be:
> rename aaa bbb *

Interesting... i'd never run across this command.  Thanks!  I've always 
done the lengthy perl/sed one-liner haha.

rename on my fedora boxes is an binary in the util-linux package.  rename 
on ubuntu is a link to prename, which is a version written in perl.  Not 
sure if they use the same syntax.

ray
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