[Ilugc] re :renaming folders

R.Ramkumar andyetitmoves at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 05:15:34 IST 2006


Hi!

> baluk at ubuntu:/media/hdb5/tvg-downloads$ rename 's/(.*)([0-9][0-9])/\10\2/'
> *
> \2 better written as $2 at (eval 1) line 1.
> \2 better written as $2 at (eval 2) line 1.
> 08.KSG - RADIO - 5-6-2006 not renamed:06 already exists
> \2 better written as $2 at (eval 3) line 1.

I had sent a second mail immediately in which I had changed the
arguments to rename. I had actually thought in the first mail that the
number was a suffix rather than a prefix. Please use the rename
command in the second mail. The "better written" warnings might still
come, but they can be ignored.

it moves on...

-- 
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire
was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate
successful termination of their C programs.
                             -- Robert Firth


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