Re: Renaming bunches of files

If you prefer to run a script rather than remember and type all that in, there is one floating around. It was originally written by Larry himself. Tom Christiansen posted it to comp.lang.perl.misc a few years back.

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Re: Re: Renaming bunches of files by bsb (Priest) on Aug 12, 2003 at 13:48 UTC
$ which rename /usr/bin/rename $ head -n 5 `which rename` #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # This script was developed by Robin Barker (Robin.Barker@npl.co.uk), # from Larry Wall's original script eg/rename from the perl source. # [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Renaming bunches of files
by bsb (Priest) on Aug 12, 2003 at 13:48 UTC

$ which rename
/usr/bin/rename

$ head -n 5 `which rename`
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
#  This script was developed by Robin Barker (Robin.Barker@npl.co.uk),
#  from Larry Wall's original script eg/rename from the perl source.
#
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