Batch rename

[Florian Diesch]

Mario Spinthiras <spinthiras.mario at gmail.com> writes:

> I fail to see why people suggest so many tools that are NOT installed by
> default when rename and a for statement do the job just fine :)

mmv does a good job in detecting collisions *before* renaming
anything. Doing that with shell code is pretty hard, and AFAIK rename
doesn't do it, too.

In general it's not easy to get all corner cases right with a for loop.

   Florian
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