Re: The rename command…

Karl Larsen wrote:
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
2008/8/27 Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>


Rashkae wrote:

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:



When looking around on the web, I've seen a few sites where they mention

the

"other" rename, but no one seems to use it very much. One person even
mentioned it as "pretty useless" or something like that…



It's certainly less powerful than prename. All it does is simple string
substitution with no regex wildcards. (However, I should point out,
this 'pretty useless' is exactly what you're doing here)



This forever repeated Re:The rename Command... is a Summer waste
time email. From the very beginning of Linux the Windows users had to
learn that rename is not part of the commands. We used "mv" and it has
worked for all this time. It still does.


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.

Well the title has hung on for a long time. I had no idea English is
a second language for you. You are doing very well!

I was just trying to suggest that "mv" is the same function that
rename should do. Alas there is a rename in the perl language which IS
confusing!

So let it die and we can get onto another Summer question.


Stop trying to kill other people's discussion,, in case you haven't
noticed this is a tech help list, not a Karl's state of computers list,
so take your ass to Slashdot... enough is enough.

And in case you are too lazy to even read the thread you are trying to
squelch, rename is not equivalent to mv, is a standard linux command as
well as a standard utility on Debian that is grossly underused and
Mis-understood (possibly because of the name similarity with DOS rename
command)

So please, take your unwelcome behaviour elsewhere.

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