Re: Renaming tons of files

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Renaming tons of files
\ Amar Cosic (27 Feb 2008)
. \ Daniel Iliev (27 Feb 2008)
. . \ Amar Cosic (27 Feb 2008)
. \ Erik (27 Feb 2008)
. . \ Galevsky (27 Feb 2008)
. . . \ Alan McKinnon (27 Feb 2008)
. . . . \ Etaoin Shrdlu (27 Feb 2008)
. . . . . \ Alan McKinnon (27 Feb 2008)
. . . . . . \ Uwe Thiem (27 Feb 2008)
. . . . \ Markus Schönhaber (27 Feb 2008)
. . . . . \ Amar Cosic (27 Feb 2008)
. . . . . \ Alan McKinnon (29 Feb 2008)
. . . . . . \ Markus Schönhaber (29 Feb 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Renaming tons of files
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Markus Schönhaber
Date:	29 Feb 2008

Alan McKinnon wrote:

>> Alan McKinnon wrote:

>>> And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title

> Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title.

Well...

> As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and
> DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand
> *.txt files

What exactly makes doing
rename .txt .doc *.txt
so exceptionally painful?
OK, if the expanded command line exceeds the length limit, one might
have to combine the above with something like xargs. But I feel neither
pain with that nor the need to write a script or install KDE.

Anyway, this gets purely academic since the OP already said that he
could accomplish what he wanted to by using rename.

Regards
mks
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