Von: "Harshwardhan Nagaonkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hahaha. It always amuses me whenever we have a thread about a particular > topic, which refrences a particular search-and-replace command. Various > other people reply and give examples with which the said > search-and-replace command will not work; and then give their own > versions of the command. > > All that said, isn't there like a "One True Search-and-replace Command" > which will handle all this weirdness of characters being at the > start/middle/end of words which should not be replaced? This is just an > informative question though (I hope it doesn't end like an unproductive > Vi Vs. Emacs sort of discussion). =) >
right. i was wondering, not long ago, if there's a possibility to merge both parameters of the 'rename' shell script into one and port all this to, say, windows. there are many situations where such a tool would make my life a bit easier... from what i understood, you can give a perl-like replace command like /find/replace/ and a file filter to select the files to apply this on, like *.txt. why can't one just make something like /(find.*)\.txt/replace_<uppercase of \1>_<counter>\.txt/ hmm, you got the point? or were i just sleeping too long and this actually IS possible? btw, can i do this perl replaces with the pcre library, too? (not inside perl, of course.) if yes, could anyone explain this to me please? -- Yves Goergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't CC me (causes double mails) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
