#!/usr/bin/perl -w

if (@ARGV<2) {
  print STDERR<<EOM;
  rename file names using perl substitution:
       rename .old .new *.old
       rename 'upper unless /^Make/' *
       rename 'lower unless /^Make/' *
       rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/ unless /^Make/' *     (same as above)
       rename 's/\.orig\$//' *.orig
       rename '\$_ .= ".bad"' *.f
       rename '\$_ .= "-t"' *
       rename 'print "\$_: "; s/foo/bar/ if <stdin> =~ /^y/i' *
EOM
  exit(1);
}

$op = shift;
$op =~ s|lower|y/A-Z/a-z/|;
$op =~ s|upper|y/a-z/A-Z/|;

# Deal with 'ren.pl .old .new *'
if (! -f $ARGV[0]) {
    $op="s/$op/" . $ARGV[0] . "/";
}

for (@ARGV) {
    next if(! -e $_);
    $was = $_;
    eval $op;
    $newnames{$_}++;
    $moveto{$was} = $_;
}

# Make sure nothing will be lost:
$ok=1;
foreach (keys %moveto) {
    if ( $newnames{$moveto{$_}} > 1) {
    print STDERR "$_ --> $moveto{$_}: ",
        "multiple files ($newnames{$moveto{$_}}) would",
        " be renamed to $moveto{$_}\n";
    $ok=0;
    }
    next if ($_ eq $moveto{$_});
    if (-e $moveto{$_}) {
    print STDERR "$_ --> $moveto{$_}: file already exists.\n";
    $ok=0;
    }
}

exit 1 unless($ok);

foreach (keys %moveto) {
  next if ($_ eq $moveto{$_});
  print "Renaming $_ to $moveto{$_}\n";
  rename($_,$moveto{$_});
}

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