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#!/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;

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