From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:37:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802271937.42384.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5cfc3af0802270750g7913827h6c5dea41d56fc714@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Galevsky wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Erik <esigra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Amar Cosic skrev:
> >
> > emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you.
>
> emerging extra stuff just for a very simple mv or rename ? Oh my God
> .....
The download is 82kB.
The build is < 30 seconds
I shudder to think of the number of times I've written a script to do
exactly this job, how many times I've seen this exact question on many
mailing lists and the sheer frustration of dealing with all the edge
cases. THIS emerge is infinitely cheaper than other way to do the same
job.
And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 15:12 [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files Amar Cosic
2008-02-27 15:30 ` Daniel Iliev
2008-02-27 15:35 ` Amar Cosic
2008-02-27 15:40 ` Erik
2008-02-27 15:50 ` Galevsky
2008-02-27 17:37 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-02-27 18:08 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-02-27 18:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-02-27 19:01 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-02-27 19:04 ` Markus Schönhaber
2008-02-27 19:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Amar Cosic
2008-02-28 16:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2008-02-29 10:34 ` Markus Schönhaber
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