Renaming Files on Hoary

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:57:26PM -0400, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> Bareword "P1140111" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1)
> line 1.
> Bareword "JPG" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1) line 1.
> $

You have to tell 'rename' what it should do to each file. I
know it's natural to assume that

rename foo bar

means 'rename file foo so that it's called bar', but I
suspect that 'rename' lets simple jobs like that be handled
by mv(1).

'rename' handles more complicated tasks. E.g., to convert
files to lowercase, do

rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' *.JPG

To change every instance of 'foo' in a filename to 'bar', do

rename 's/foo/bar/g' *.JPG

Etc.

I hope that helps.

Steve

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