[vox-tech] perl rename

[Mark's tech help]

I'm a tad baffled by the usage of perl here.  Some part of a learning exercise for perl, or could one not just come up with a line of bash commands.. a combination of mv and sed with a pipe &/or redirect?

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On 9/4/2015 at 1:45 AM, "Jeff Newmiller" <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us> wrote:
>
>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.
>>
>>rename "s/^/foo/" *.txt
>>
>>It's on Debian. 
>>
>>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?
>>> >
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