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Update: originally forgot to include shell metacharacter cleansing in --sanitize.

This is a much improved version of the script I posted at rename 0.2 - an improved version of the script which comes with Perl, which in turn is an evolution of the script that comes with Perl. (PodMaster informs me that it's only included in ActivePerl. I haven't looked.)

It now does everything I could personally ask for in such a script; thanks particularly to graff and sauoq for feedback and food for thought.

I also stole a few options from Peder Strey's rename on CPAN. That one has additional options for finely grained control over keeping backups of the files under their old names; personally, I don't see the merit. If you do, please let me know. In either case, even if anyone thinks such facilities would be good to have, I feel they should be provided by a more general mechanism. After all, this is a script you can pass Perl code to; while there's good reason to optimize for the common case, I feel it is better to leave the specialised cases to the expressive prowess of Perl rather than try to invent a narrowly defined interface for them.

Blue-sky stuff: just yesterday I also decided this is basically a perfect vehicle to build a batch MP3 processor onto. Now I plan to eventually add facilities for querying as well manipulating the ID3 tags in MP3 files alongside their filenames. Given a cleanly integrated interface, this script would naturally lend itself to that task and become a MP3 renamer to end all MP3 renamers - without even focussing on that task. Of course all MP3 processing stuff would be optional and its main purpose would still be plain old renaming of files.

Anyway, without further ado, have at it. Please give this a thorough whirl and let me know of any kinks.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

=head1 NAME

rename - renames multiple files

=head1 SYNOPSIS

F<rename>
B<-h>

F<rename>
S<B<[ -0 ]>>
S<B<[ -c | -C ]>>
S<B<[ -e code ]>>
S<B<[ -f ]>>
S<B<[ -i ]>>
S<B<[ -l | -L ]>>
S<B<[ -n ]>>
S<B<[ -s from to ]>>
S<B<[ -v ]>>
S<B<[ files ]>>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

C<rename> renames the filenames supplied according to the rules specif
+ied. If a given filename is not modified, it will not be renamed. If 
+no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read vi
+a standard input.

For example, to rename all files matching C<*.bak> to strip the extens
+ion, you might say

 rename 's/\.bak$//' *.bak

If are confident that none of the filenames has C<.bak> anywhere else 
+than at the end, you can also use the much easier typed

 rename -s .bak '' *.bak

You can always do multiple changes in one ago:

 rename -s .tgz .tar.gz -s .tbz2 .tar.bz2 *.tar.*

Note however that expressive options are order sensitive. The followin
+g would probably surprise you:

 rename -s foo bar -s bar baz *

Because changes are cumulative, this would end up substituting a F<foo
+> match in a filename with F<baz>, not F<bar>! To get the intended re
+sults in the above example, you could reverse the order of options:

 rename -s bar baz -s foo bar *

If you placed the C<-c> after the C<-e> in the above example, files wi
+th F<.zip> and F<.ZIP> extensions would be (attempted to be) moved to
+ different directories.

To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use

 rename -c *

If you have files with control characters and blanks in their names, C
+<-z> will clean them up.

 rename -z *

You can combine all of these to suit your needs. F.ex files from Windo
+ws systems often have blanks and (sometimes nothing but) capital lett
+ers. Let's say you have a bunch of such files to clean up, and you al
+so want to move them to subdirectories based on extension. The follow
+ing command should help, provided all directories already exist:

 rename -cz -e '$_ = "$1/$_" if /(\..*)\z/' *

Again you need to pay attention to order sensitivity for expressive op
+tions. If you placed the C<-c> after the C<-e> in the above example, 
+files with F<.zip> and F<.ZIP> extensions would be (attempted to be) 
+moved to different directories because the directory name prefix woul
+d be added before the filenames were normalized.

=head1 ARGUMENTS

=over 4

=item B<-h>, B<--help>

Browse the manpage.

=back

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=item B<-0>, B<--null>

When reading file names from C<STDIN>, split on null bytes instead of 
+newlines. This is useful in combination with GNU find's C<-print0> op
+tion, GNU grep's C<-Z> option, and GNU sort's C<-z> option, to name j
+ust a few. B<Only valid if no filenames have been given on the comman
+dline.>

=item B<-c>, B<--lower-case>

Converts file names to all lower case.

=item B<-C>, B<--upper-case>

Converts file names to all upper case.

=item B<-e>, B<--expr>

The C<code> argument to this option should be a Perl expression that a
+ssumes the filename in the C<$_> variable and modifies it for the fil
+enames to be renamed. When no other C<-c>, C<-C>, C<-e>, C<-s>, or C<
+-z> options are given, you can omit the C<-e> from infront of the cod
+e.

=item B<-f>, B<--force>

Rename even when a file with the destination name already exists.

=item B<-i>, B<--interactive>

Ask the user to confirm every action before it is taken.

=item B<-l>, B<--symlink>

Create symlinks from the new names to the existing ones, instead of re
+naming the files. B<Cannot be used in conjunction with C<-L>.>

=item B<-L>, B<--hardlink>

Create hard links from the new names to the existing ones, instead of 
+renaming the files. B<Cannot be used in conjunction with C<-l>.>

=item B<-n>, B<--dry-run>, B<--just-print>

Show how the files would be renamed, but don't actually do anything.

=item B<-s>, B<--subst>, B<--simple>

Perform a simple textual substitution of C<from> to C<to>. The C<from>
+ and C<to> parameters must immediately follow the argument.

This is equivalent to supplying a C<perlexpr> of C<s/\Qfrom/to/>.

=item B<-v>, B<--verbose>

Print additional information about the operations (not) executed.

=item B<-z>, B<--sanitize>

Replaces consecutive blanks, shell meta characters, and control charac
+ters in filenames with underscores.

=back

=head1 SEE ALSO

mv(1), perl(1), find(1), grep(1), sort(1)

=head1 AUTHORS

Aristotle Pagaltzis

Original code from Larry Wall and Robin Barker.

=head1 BUGS

None currently known.

=cut

use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;

sub DEBUG { print "@_\n" if $::LEVEL >= 2 }
sub INFO  { print "@_\n" if $::LEVEL >= 1 }
sub ERROR { print "@_\n" }

my @perlexpr;

Getopt::Long::Configure(qw(bundling no_ignore_case));
GetOptions(
    'h|help'               => sub { pod2usage( -verbose => 2 ) },
    '0|null'               => \my $opt_null,
    'c|lower-case'         => sub { push @perlexpr, 's/([[:upper:]]+)/
+\L$1/g' },
    'C|upper-case'         => sub { push @perlexpr, 's/([[:lower:]]+)/
+\U$1/g' },
    'e|expr=s'             => \@perlexpr,
    'f|force'              => \my $opt_force,
    'i|interactive'        => \my $opt_interactive,
    'l|symlink'            => \my $opt_symlink,
    'L|hardlink'           => \my $opt_hardlink,
    'n|just-print|dry-run' => \my $opt_dryrun,
    's|subst|simple'       => sub {
        pod2usage( -verbose => 1 ) if @ARGV < 2;
        my @param = map(quotemeta, splice @ARGV, 0, 2);
        # NB: ${\"..."} is necessary because unknown backslash escapes
+ are not
        # treated the same in pattern- vs doublequote-quoting context,
+ and we need
        # the latter to do the right thing with user input like 'foo{b
+ar}baz'
        push @perlexpr, sprintf 's/\Q${\"%s"}\E/%s/', @param;
    },
    'v|verbose+'           => \my $opt_verbose,
    'z|sanitize'           => sub { push @perlexpr, 's/[!"$&()=?`*\';<
+>|_[:cntrl:][:blank:]]+/_/g' },
) or pod2usage( -verbose => 1 );

pod2usage( -verbose => 1 ) if $opt_hardlink and $opt_symlink;

if(not @perlexpr) {
    if(@ARGV) { push @perlexpr, shift }
    else { pod2usage( -verbose => 1 ) }
}

pod2usage( -verbose => 1 ) if $opt_null and @ARGV;

$::LEVEL = ($opt_verbose || 0) + ($opt_dryrun || 0);

my $code = do {
    my $cat = "sub { ".join('; ', @perlexpr)." }";
    DEBUG("Using expression: $cat");
    my $evaled = eval $cat;
    die $@ if $@;
    die "Could not evaluate to code ref\n" unless 'CODE' eq ref $evale
+d;
    $evaled;
};

if (!@ARGV) {
    INFO("Reading filenames from STDIN");
    @ARGV = do {
        if($opt_null) {
            INFO("Splitting on null bytes");
            local $/ = "\0";
        }
        <STDIN>;
    };
    chomp @ARGV;
}

my ($verb, $verbed, $action) =
    $opt_hardlink ? ( qw(link linked), sub { link shift, shift } ) :
    $opt_symlink  ? ( qw(symlink symlinked), sub { symlink shift, shif
+t } ) :
    do { qw(rename renamed), sub { rename shift, shift } };

for (@ARGV) {
    my $oldname = $_;

    $code->();

    if($oldname eq $_) {
        DEBUG("'$oldname' unchanged");
        next;
    }

    ERROR("'$oldname' not $verbed: '$_' already exists"), next
        if not $opt_force and -e;

    if($opt_interactive and not $opt_dryrun) {
        print "\u$verb '$oldname' to '$_' (y/n)? ";
        if(<STDIN> !~ /^y/i) {
            DEBUG("Skipping '$oldname'.");
            next;
        }
    }

    if ($opt_dryrun or $action->($oldname, $_)) {
        INFO("'$oldname' $verbed to '$_'");
    }
    else {
        ERROR("Can't $verb '$oldname' to '$_': $!");
    }
}

INFO('Dry run, no changes were made.') if $opt_dryrun;