Re: rename vs rename -- was Re: Renaming files

On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 09:45:49AM +1100, luv-main wrote:

Dunno if slackware has it packaged, but the perl-based rename command is available from https://metacpan.org/release/File-Rename

Thanks but no thanks. Slackware rename is part of util-linux.

On Ubuntu, "apt-get install rename".

Tried that, don't like it. For a beginner, the util-linux one is much simpler, this from the man page:

EXAMPLES Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands

rename foo foo0 foo? rename foo foo0 foo??

will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And

rename .htm .html *.htm

will fix the extension of your html files.

No need to understand sed :) Cheers ... Duncan.