Hi, On 05/05/17 14:34, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:42:00PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: or you could just set nullglob in the script.
Okay.
but, really, why write a 58 line shell script when a oneliner rename command (or 2 or 3 lines when reformatted for readability) is all that's needed?
Yes, but most of my script was to setup the test and show comments; the actual lines that did the work were not significant. The script was easy to understand with just a little study and I'm sure it gives Mark exactly what he actually needs without complicating anything with regex foo. And what's more, I did interpret what Mark had wanted quite well from his initial description, his later ls output showed files that would work perfectly well with my script. Cheers A.