[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:07:08AM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 11:04, Tethys wrote:
> > This won't handle filenames containing spaces -- quite likely if they
> > were created by Mac or Windows users. You need to quote the "$i" (and
> > the setting of $newname a couple of lines earlier).
> 
> Use "mmv" - much easier.

That's quite an interesting command. OS-9{,000} used to have a command
called 'mkcom' which was also useful in these situations. If I can
remember the syntax it was something like:

mkcom -e "move *.old *.new" *.old

The -e option removed the extension from the list of files, and each
"*" in the first argument was then replaced by the filename. Of course
OS-9 also lacked a decent shell with for loops etc.

Sorry, I'm blathering :-)

Rich.

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