From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUzAV-0001hR-P6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89F0EE049D; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.239]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E00E049F for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so4531596wri.10 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:56:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=de8uM6FePtiAxkDiTbhGpgLTLYGCvBZAkqyUidMGYcU=; b=MpgQnAjoBP/IbIOimYAI10iC5dsVBI8jD7g1KVLfhh06o3JDBpV+FaMnM2E3m7xJ+z7uip3zeeEDOmZzrizQjmCGBZSQr0Ro2A02rk9d67d2EuuisGSxK+1YUG4FdEhoZ6Mszb8lZhYASxUyewW76WOALnPMtp5Pp+vh41+/5TU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=cGrvE4DD6iPsZqbBjig9gQbqyTtaihLa3OdcLT3mgsKw19poR2NOdWlurwLXffzFYQYjuP5t7QSEYY68g+lVtKSW1TSbHKqom+cygSxrXfR2ylY35JZJA/xRtau5fKuJ5pU5I60MgxRGD6B9rp222x+kv2QJZVdGVEtGGZ7to0k= Received: by 10.64.250.7 with SMTP id x7mr16916840qbh.82.1204268188681; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:56:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.200.115? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f13sm8540389qba.20.2008.02.28.22.56.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:56:28 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:20:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <8e6453010802270712y44a05a9cw2be22a9c8262f2a0@mail.gmail.com> <200802271937.42384.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <47C5B42A.7020202@schoenhaber.de> In-Reply-To: <47C5B42A.7020202@schoenhaber.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802281820.15867.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 461326aa-47da-44ba-8932-a3c531982f04 X-Archives-Hash: 8bbff132d5654cfb0ae0d9dcd8ec3e86 On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Markus Sch=C3=B6nhaber 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=20 DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand=20 *.txt files =2D-=20 Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list