[kwlug-disc] bulk renaming with regex

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Just like Doug and Steve, I am in the camp of "create a shell script, edit,
then run it" camp.

It often starts with awk:

ls *show* | awk '{print "mv ", $1, $1}' > x

Now x has a skeleton like:

mv show1 show1
mv show2 show2

Then I edit using vim according to what I want (tedious part), then run it.

But now that rename has been pointed out, I think I will try to use that
instead.
For one thing, it has -v (shows what is being done), and -n (a dry run
mode), which
should assist significantly with the task of renaming.
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