Shell wildcard expansion
Adam Stauffer
ars at cs.brown.edu
Tue Jun 25 10:21:19 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun24.195425.26387 at convex.com>
tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
From the keyboard of ars at cs.brown.edu (Adam Stauffer):
:
:}I'm looking for a wildcard expansion mechanism, where for example I could
:}do mv *.c *.o.
:}E.g. an expansion where I only get the * part.
:
:There is a really nifty program called "mmv" that allows for all sorts
:of fun expansions to occur. It is available at uunet.uu.net in vol 21
:of the comp.sources.unix archive...
Maybe you didn't look much at rename script that was posted. It
allows things like:
Maybe you have never seen mmv so you don't know what it does.
Trust me, I wouldn't have posted if it didn't have more functionality
than a 30 line Perl script.
-a
More information about the Comp.unix.shell
mailing list