On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 23:40 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:14:49 -0500
Tom H <tomh0665(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:03 AM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of:
> > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat
> > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_002__parse.dat
> > etc..
> >
> > I'd like to simply remove the 1st part ztcloud_nfs_parsezt from the
> > files, renaming the files to the rest of the filename..
> >
> > Thought it should be simple using rename
> >
> > rename 's/ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa/aa/' zt*.dat
> >
> > However, this didn't work... so.. hmm..
>
> Is "rename" provided by util-linux or is it a perl-provided script?
>
> The util-linux syntax is
>
> rename search_for replace_with <files>
>
> while the perl-script syntax is
>
> rename 's/search_for/replace_with/' <files>
thanks for the latter sed syntax - good to know on Debian, IINM ...
I wonder if that version is actually prename ('dnf install prename')
under a different name, which would be nicely ironic ...
poc