Re: Smart version of mv ?

From: Adam Funk (a24061_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/08/05

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    Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:15:00 +0100
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    Paolo Pantaleo wrote:

    > with MSDOS mv (or move, i don't remember the name) you can do
    > mv *.c *.cpp
    > that is a quite smart thing, i think :)
    >
    > with Unix mv... you can't. You have to use find and sed (at least so i
    > know)
    >
    > Is there a nice program that can do things like:
    > TheSmartMove "*.c" "*.cpp"

    The perl package includes the rename command, which will do what you want
     $ rename s/\.c$/\.cpp/ *.c
    and much more complicated things.

    You can also test a substitution first with the -v -n options. 

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