On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:48:35PM +0300, virtanen wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Frodo Baggins wrote: > > virtanen scripsit: > > > > > >This: > > > > > >******************************************* > > >rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/;s/\.htm$/.html/g' *.HTM > > >******************************************* > > > > > >looks very very > > >BEAUTIFUL > > >to my eyes! > > > Well, > > I can see sarcasm when it bytes my nose:))) Nevertheles... Perl is > > beautiful:) > _________________________________________________________________________ > > I'm deadly serious, not sarcastic. (Everything what I said is true. And I > really liked the looks of that command.) > > But You probably know, where to get that script? > There are so many perl packages, that I don't want to install them all...
Ah, glad someone else has discovered the joy of 'rename'. It makes life so much nicer. :) As to where it's from: perl-5.005: /usr/share/man/man1/rename-5.005.1p.gz perl-5.005: /usr/bin/rename-5.005 Which you should have on Potato or Woody. (Yet another reason to upgrade from slink. :)) -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves.