[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 02:32:34PM +0100, 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.

Maybe you shouldn't answer your own questions so quickly.  It's quite
possible to do it so as to be portable in almost all of them.  Bash,
csh, tcsh, zsh and the various Korn clones will all run vanilla Bourne
Shell scripts.  Several of the suggested solutions would work on all of
them.

-- 
Bruce


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