in reply to Renaming all files in a directory

Long long ago, Larry famously wrote a short and handy rename Perl script (which seems to have been lost). However, improved versions of this script can still be found. See for example:

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Re^2: Renaming all files in a directory
by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 02, 2021 at 05:43 UTC

    I'm pretty sure I've been schlepping this one along in my homedir as ~/bin/rename for well over two decades now that's genesis is about six years after the original.

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