Re: Re: Re: changing file extensions

No, it's a shell intrinsic command.

[D:\Program Files\4nt]rename /?
Rename files or subdirectories.

RENAME [/A:[[-]rhsda] /E /I"text" /NPQST] old_name... new_name
        /A:(ttribute select)    /P(rompt)
        /E (no error messages)  /Q(uiet)
        /I (match description)  /S(ubdirectory)
        /N(othing)              /T(otal)

[D:\Program Files\4nt]
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Re: Re: Re: Re: changing file extensions by abstracts (Hermit) on Aug 03, 2001 at 03:31 UTC
Hello again Apparently we're talking about 2 different renames: RENAME(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide RENAME(1) NAME rename - renames multiple files SYNOPSIS rename [ -v ] perlexpr [ files ] DESCRIPTION "rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The perlexpr argu? ment is a Perl expression which is expected to modify the "$_" string in Perl for at least some of the filenames specified. If a given filename is not modified by the expression, it will not be renamed. If no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read via standard input. For example, to rename all files matching ".bak" to strip the extension, you might say rename 's/\e.bak$//' .bak To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' * [snip] AUTHOR Larry Wall [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: changing file extensions
by abstracts (Hermit) on Aug 03, 2001 at 03:31 UTC

Apparently we're talking about 2 different renames:

RENAME(1)        Perl Programmers Reference Guide       RENAME(1)

NAME
       rename - renames multiple files

SYNOPSIS
       rename [ -v ] perlexpr [ files ]

DESCRIPTION
       "rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the
       rule specified as the first argument.  The perlexpr argu?
       ment is a Perl expression which is expected to modify the
       "$_" string in Perl for at least some of the filenames
       specified.  If a given filename is not modified by the
       expression, it will not be renamed.  If no filenames are
       given on the command line, filenames will be read via
       standard input.

       For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip
       the extension, you might say

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

       To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use

               rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
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