rename v. script

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri May 20 15:07:01 UTC 2005


Emmanuel Deng wrote:
> --- Emmanuel Seyman <seyman at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:18:06PM -0400, Jeff Kinz
>>wrote:
>>
>>>To do what you want, in one simple line:
>>>
>>>rename JPG jpg *
>>
>>Nitpick : You're assuming that no file contains JPG
>>in its name.
>>
>>rename .JPG .jpg *.JPG
>>
>>Emmanuel
>>
> 
> 
> What are u guys talking about? We don't have the 
> "rename" command in unix, we have "mv" which tells the
> system to move files or folders from current directory
> to current directory or to another.
> 
> Remember, moving a file from current directory to
> current directory means "renaming" the file.

Please try "man rename" before making such statements.

Paul.




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