[Gllug] Mass renaming of files

[Paul Cupis]

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On Thursday 08 May 2003 14:32, "Martin A. Brooks" <martin at clues.ltd.uk> 
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.
>
> For "scripts", I tend to write perl rather than "shell", as the
> chances are the perl will be portable.

Well as both a Debian and a Perl user, I would hope that you would use 
rename(1), as it comes installed by default and should do the requested 
job very well.

  $ rename 's/\://g' "*"

looks about right (pending someone picking up on a quoting problem).

I didn't particularly want to drag this thread out any longer, but the 
perl script in question should be fairly portable.

Paul Cupis
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paul at cupis.co.uk

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