Renaming Files on Hoary

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:21:25PM -0300, Joel Goguen wrote:
> Try escaping the * so it gets passed to the script as the * character.
> So instead of 
> [jgoguen@/home/jgoguen]$ rename *.JPG *.jpg
> you would have 
> [jgoguen@/home/jgoguen]$ rename \*.JPG \*.jpg

The latter would be identical to

rename '*.JPG' '*.jpg'

And that won't work, as I mentioned earlier, without
writing your own globbing engine. 

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