in reply to Re: Perl Rename
in thread Perl Rename

Good idea. I should have thought of that. It get's rid of my error, but the test files aren't getting renamed.

Hmmm ....

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Re^3: Perl Rename
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 03, 2010 at 11:49 UTC

    Works for me if I invoke like this:

    rnm "s/Blah Blah - \d{2} - //" "Blah Blah - 01 - Peter.txt" "Blah Blah + - 02 - Lois.txt"

    Of course, that requires I supply the names of the files to be renamed because cmd.exe doesn't expand wildcards for you. If you want that to happen, you'll have to modify the script a little:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w $op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n"; chomp( @ARGV ); @ARGV = map glob, @ARGV; for ( @ARGV ) { $was = $_; eval $op; die $@ if $@; rename ( $was, $_ ) unless $was eq $_; }

    Then rnm "s/Blah Blah - \d{2} - //" *.txt works.


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