From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
To: TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:21:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6479718-e97a-41af-8f8a-f317d59a1ae8@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_R8Mg5Nfh1-cGUWFhTNf=HcQ9hM+_XW6+g3m-A-24DYDQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, at 23:45, John Cowan wrote:
> Not always, though. Some distros package GNU rename
> <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html> instead, which
> can only convert a fixed string to another fixed string.
This rename utility is actually part of util-linux [a mixed bag of utilities that were developed early on by linux kernel developers to fill in the gaps of what GNU didn't provide], not GNU.
[I believe the other rename command is actually part of perl, and you can execute arbitrary perl code, not just a regex substitution]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-09 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-06 9:53 Tyler Adams
2020-10-06 15:17 ` John Cowan
2020-10-07 2:25 ` Random832
2020-10-07 2:58 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07 9:22 ` arnold
2020-10-07 9:45 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-10-08 3:45 ` John Cowan
2020-10-09 18:21 ` Random832 [this message]
2020-10-08 0:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-08 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2020-10-08 2:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-06 15:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 23:11 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-06 23:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07 0:23 ` Warner Losh
2020-10-07 0:32 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07 0:33 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07 3:14 ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 21:29 ` Greg A. Woods
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