The rename command…

[Rashkae]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> 2008/8/27 Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>>
>>   
>>> Rashkae wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
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>>>>> When looking around on the web, I've seen a few sites where they mention
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>>> the
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>>>>> "other" rename, but no one seems to use it very much. One person even
>>>>> mentioned it as "pretty useless" or something like that…
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> It's certainly less powerful than prename.  All it does is simple string
>>>> substitution with no regex wildcards.  (However, I should point out,
>>>> this 'pretty useless' is exactly what you're doing here)
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>     This forever repeated Re:The rename Command... is a Summer waste
>>> time email. From the very beginning of Linux the Windows users had to
>>> learn that rename is not part of the commands. We used "mv" and it has
>>> worked for all this time. It still does.
>>>     
>>
>> If you refer to me, I'm sorry to waste your summer. I only ask questions
>> because I want to learn.
>> When first starting to use computers, if we do not count the very first
>> years with a Swedish computer (Luxor ABC80) with a Basic interpreter and the
>> operating system CP/M, I was actually learning the operating system Primos
>> on a Prime 750, I think, at the university in the second half of the
>> eighties. The terminals were PT200. After they threw that out (except the
>> terminals), they got a Unix machine, and that is what I consider my first
>> real computer experience. That was a long time ago and after only a few
>> years I started to use Windows, just because wherever I was there was
>> Windows. After a while I got my own PC in 1999. OS? Windows 98. Some friends
>> also gave me a few pirate CDs with Windows 2000 and XP, yes, even ME. I
>> tried those, but after a while I thought I'd better stop doing those pirate
>> things, so I went back to Windows 98, which came with my PC. When I bought
>> my laptop at the end of 2006, Windows XP was preinstalled, but in summer
>> 2007 I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on it, after schrinking the Windows partition
>> to about 15 GB. I only wanted XP for two reasons: I paid for it and "just in
>> case I will need it some time". So far I started up Windows maybe 5 times or
>> so, and it annoyed me every time.
>> Anyway, I used mv since about 1988 and I am not sure I ever used rename in
>> DOS. Maybe a few times.
>> This question was, however, more a question about regular expression and
>> piping and things like that. The thing I wanted to do was to rename a lot of
>> links, making the annoying "Link to " thing disappear. I searched the link
>> using keywords like "rename" etc, not to look for a command with that name,
>> only because I thought that word should be mentioned in a text describing
>> how to batch rename files. I accidently found that rename command, which I
>> had no idea about before that. I read a little about it, but it seemed like
>> there was no -r or --recursive option, so I asked here for a better command
>> or set of commands for piping or whatever, maybe even a script. I think I
>> was quite open minded about the whole thing, even if that doesn't seem clear
>> when reading my first post in this thread.
>> Now I got a few replies which I am very happy with. I now have a few
>> solutions for my task and I even timed them to see which one is the fastest,
>> and I even gave my results here, just in case someone would be interested to
>> know, even if I doubt it.
>> So now I can get my job done and I learned a lot at the same time, which I
>> feel is a really great bonus. If I wonder the same thing again, I can just
>> search for this thread and refresh my memory.
>> Thanks to all who contributed with suggestions, ideas, information and
>> opinions.
>> So Karl, I think that you won't see much of this subject in the nearest
>> future, and I'm sorry for thinking that rename was a Linux standard command.
>> Well, actually I didn't, but well... my English is not very good and so on,
>> and I guess I couldn't find a better word at that time. Actually I still can
>> not... especially not when I also want to keep subjects short.
>>   
>     Well the title has hung on for a long time. I had no idea English is 
> a second language for you. You are doing very well!
> 
>     I was just trying to suggest that "mv" is the same function that 
> rename should do. Alas there is a rename in the perl language which IS 
> confusing!
> 
>     So let it die and we can get onto another Summer question.
> 

Stop trying to kill other people's discussion,, in case you haven't
noticed this is a tech help list, not a Karl's state of computers list,
so take your ass to Slashdot... enough is enough.

And in case you are too lazy to even read the thread you are trying to
squelch, rename is not equivalent to mv, is a standard linux command as
well as a standard utility on Debian that is grossly underused and
Mis-understood (possibly because of the name similarity with DOS rename
command)

So please, take your unwelcome behaviour elsewhere.