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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title |
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> Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title. |
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Well... |
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> As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and |
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> DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand |
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> *.txt files |
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What exactly makes doing |
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rename .txt .doc *.txt |
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so exceptionally painful? |
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OK, if the expanded command line exceeds the length limit, one might |
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have to combine the above with something like xargs. But I feel neither |
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pain with that nor the need to write a script or install KDE. |
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Anyway, this gets purely academic since the OP already said that he |
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could accomplish what he wanted to by using rename. |
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Regards |
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mks |
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