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in reply to What one-liners do people actually use?

I gotta download rename.pl so I can stop typing the following all the time:

dir /b | perl -ne "chomp; $o=$_; s/.../.../; $n=$_; rename($o,$n) unle +ss -e $n"

I added unless -e $n because I've renamed an entire directory to one file name once, leaving me only one file total. Thankfully, I had a copy of the files elsewhere.