From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:20:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802281820.15867.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C5B42A.7020202@schoenhaber.de>
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title
>
> The thread title, the OP and the OP's reply to the suggestion to let
> rename do the job make me think that a rename is exactly what the OP
> wants to do.
Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title.
As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and
DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand
*.txt files
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 6:56 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
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 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-02-29 10:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Markus Schönhaber
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