Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:34:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Andrew Kotsopoulos <a.kotsopoulos@tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "rename" shell command Message-ID: <20040126113437.GA19625@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4014F3FB.1030204@tue.nl> References: <4014F3FB.1030204@tue.nl>
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--9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:03:23PM +0100, Andrew Kotsopoulos wrote: > I'm looking for the "rename" shell command for the macosx version of=20 > bsd. In redhat and possibly other linux distributions the command=20 > renames files and supports wildcards and multiple file conversions, as=20 > you most likely know. To be more precise here is the man page: Interesting. Sounds like it would make a good port. However, check out the misc/mmv port -- it sounds like it has very similar functionality to the rename command you've been using. Anyhow, it's a pretty trivial script to write. Here's a perl verion I cooked up in a few minutes -- use with care as it has only had minimal testing. Note too that the 'from' expression is actually a perl regular expression, rather than a literal match. #!/usr/bin/perl -w $0 =3D~ s@.*/@@; if (@ARGV < 3) { die <<E_O_USAGE; $0: Usage: $0 from to file... E_O_USAGE } =20 $::from =3D shift @ARGV; $::to =3D shift @ARGV; foreach my $file (@ARGV) { my $nfile; ($nfile =3D $file) =3D~ s/$::from/$::to/; if ($nfile ne $file) { rename $file, $nfile or die "$0: Couldn't rename \"$file\" to \"$nfile\" -- $!\n"; } } # # That's All Folks! # Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAFPtNdtESqEQa7a0RAt1HAJ4guajRRL17eaLvXl6a+4ns+nlFvACfVrc3 hXWlPSFkzUqyfyeY05pKTUo= =jxzH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--
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