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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:32
Message-Id: 200802281820.15867.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files by "Markus Schönhaber"
1 On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title
4 >
5 > The thread title, the OP and the OP's reply to the suggestion to let
6 > rename do the job make me think that a rename is exactly what the OP
7 > wants to do.
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9 Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title.
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11 As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and
12 DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand
13 *.txt files
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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files "Markus Schönhaber" <gentoo-user@×××××××××××.de>