The rename command...

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/8/28 Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com>

> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Please don't change what you were doing on behalf of Karl.. just look at
> what he did.. he hijacked your thread to declare it a waste of time and
> change the discussion to his own Linux vs Windows vs Mac bullcrap that
> doesn't even belong on this list.  It's not the first time I've had
> urges to Lart the unwelcome pest in our discussion, but he keeps turning
> up like a bad penny (and at times, even a good penny, really depends on
> the day.)

Maybe I just didn't have to include the history of my computer life, but it
felt like I just had to say that I'm NOT a Windows guy who switched to Linux
and now expects Linux to behave as Windows. I was a Unix user before I even
heard of Windows (3.1…), not a very advanced user maybe, I used it to my
school work, writing and compiling programs in c, pascal and fortran77 using
emacs and documenting using WordMarc Composer, a word processor that no one
remembers today… We actually had a few PCs (they were called IBM XT and IBM
AT if I remember correctly, AT was faster than XT) running DOS and a year or
two later running Windows. The only thing I did with the Windows machines
was logging in to the Unix machine, continuing doing my work there. A few
times I tried to use Word 2.0, as I remember it. I liked the Wysiwyg thing,
which wasn't possible on the text-only PT200 terminals.
I'm also a keyboard guy, I don't use the mouse if I know of a keyboard
shortcut that does the same thing. However, I'm often just too lazy to find
out if there is…
Oops, there was more history of my computer life… a little nostalgia, I
guess…
Anyway, I got what I wanted from this thread, so I won't write much more
about this for now. Thanks again, all you guys who helped me out.
J.R.


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