Re: [tlug] Old dogs / new tricks (was: Kubuntu v5.10)

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 20:38:41 +0900, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> For example, just a few months back, a Junior Software Engineer at my
> job taught me about the rename(1) program

Darn, that's a new one on me too!

Until now I'd been doing stuff like:

$ for f in $glob; do mv -v "$f" "add_this${f#remove_this}"; done

Maybe this *is* a little more intuitive:

$ rename remove_this add_this $glob

Unix in general, and GNU/Linux in particular, never ceases to amaze me. I
may not be an expert in any particular field of GNU/Linux but I'm no newbie
either, and yet there never passes a day without me learning *something*
new.

-- 
G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

Shortcut, n.:
        The longest distance between two points.

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