[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[Richard Cohen]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> At 13:43 08/05/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Well, we often talk about Linux in the wider context of Unix and it's
> >always good practice to learn standard techniques.  I'll take the
> >portable, properly-quoted shell example over mmv any day.
>
> And will that same one run under bash, ash, csh, zsh, esh and the hundred
> other clones?  Nope, didn't think so.

You will notice that my (okay, badly-quoted...) script explicitly specified
bash in the #! line...

> For "scripts", I tend to write perl rather than "shell", as the chances are
> the perl will be portable.

On the other hand, there's a good chance it will require 10 or 15 CPAN
modules...

> Regards
>
>
> Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
> http://www.clues.ltd.uk/

Cheers
Richard


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