[kwlug-disc] bulk renaming with regex

[CrankyOldBugger]

Sorry, I neglected to mention dry run mode.. very handy, that.  Take it
from a guy who's completely bahookee'd entire folders...


On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:18 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> Just like Doug and Steve, I am in the camp of "create a shell script,
> edit, then run it" camp.
>
> It often starts with awk:
>
> ls *show* | awk '{print "mv ", $1, $1}' > x
>
> Now x has a skeleton like:
>
> mv show1 show1
> mv show2 show2
>
> Then I edit using vim according to what I want (tedious part), then run
> it.
>
> But now that rename has been pointed out, I think I will try to use that
> instead.
> For one thing, it has -v (shows what is being done), and -n (a dry run
> mode), which
> should assist significantly with the task of renaming.
>
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