[kwlug-disc] bash - file renaming

[Remi Gauvin]

On 2019-09-26 4:00 a.m., Ronald Barnes wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As you probably already know, Gnu/Linux distributions do not come with a
> rename utility similar to what some of us "grew up on" in DOS and/or OS/2.
> 
> The "mv" (move) command is to be used instead. But it doesn't handle
> things like "mv *.htm *.html".
> 


A quick appology, I do not mean to derail the discussion of your new
utility, which might have great functionality.  But this is not the
first time I find veterans who are completely unaware of the Linux
rename command.

Linux does, actually, have a rename command. It has two of them.  (One
that comes in the standard set of 'util-linux' packages, and another
more powerful regex powered one that Debian, (and ubuntu) use instead.
The util-linux rename is therefore called rename.ul on those distros.)


In your example, this would have been done with
rename.ul .htm .html *.htm

(Ironically, this is the exact example in the rename.ul man page.)


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