[vox-tech] perl rename

[Jeff Newmiller]

It was your modifier term "perl" that confused me, particularly when the OS distribution was included. In retrospect, I can see why this made sense to you, but describing it as a "rename Perl script" would have helped.
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On September 3, 2015 10:14:45 AM PDT, "Brian E. Lavender" <brian at brie.com> wrote:
>Shell command that does the following.
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>rename "s/^/foo/" *.txt
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>It's on Debian. 
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>On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 10:15:34PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>> Your question baffles me.
>> 
>> The rename function is built-in to perl.
>> 
>> There is also File::Copy if you are concerned about portability.
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>> On September 2, 2015 9:56:51 PM PDT, "Brian E. Lavender"
><brian at brie.com> wrote:
>> >Anyone know where to the find the perl rename command on Fedora?
>> >
>> >brian
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>make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the
>other
>way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
>deficiencies."
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