[GLLUG] CLI renaming question

[J Neveau]

I did read that Debian apparently went astray of the original "rename"
program; it was a competing project at the time, originally called
"mrename"; Debian eventually just called it "rename".  Their own version,
if you will.

I guess that's why the syntax is somewhat different from that of more pure
Linux distros such as Slackware.  I started out using Slackware and it was
a GREAT learning experience due to "getting under the hood" more often.

I am going do more reading on it.  I do a lot of work for friend's cleaning
up their machines, so archiving their stuff is routine.  This command will
definitely help in that endeavor.

JN


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I don't have to use it often, but rename really does make tricky
> file renaming jobs easy.
>
> Hey, your rename command is different than the one I've used on Slackware
> and Arch.  There's no mention of using vi-like commands on the filenames.
>  I think I would have just typed
>
> rename vactions!!!!!?? vactions?? vactions???????.jpg
>
> for the ones with two digits in the names, and perhaps again with extra
> question marks for those with three digits in their names.  I haven't
> tested it, though.
>
>
>                               Chick
>
>
> On 04/03/2012 06:25 PM, J Neveau wrote:
>
>> Well, I found the solution to my renaming issue of 100+ files being named
>>
>> vactions!!!!!01.jpg   vactions!!!!!02  vactions!!!!!03     etc, etc
>>
>> rename "s/[!]//g" *.jpg
>>
>> And away went the vile exclamation points!
>>
>>
>> At this point, have no idea HOW it specifically worked.....but it did.
>>  I'll need
>> to do some more reading on the syntax of that "rename" command.
>>
>> Thanks for all of the suggestions.
>>
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