RENAME
Rename Files in the Current Directory

RENAME is a PERL script that can rename files in the current directory. A PERL code is used to describe the renaming operation, and the list of files to be renamed is given by a standard UNIX mask, such as "*.f" or "*" or "test?.dat".

Usage:

rename.pl code files

Example 1:

            rename.pl 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' *
          

will rename every file so that its name is lowercase.

Example 2:

            rename.pl 's/\.orig$//' *.orig
          

will, for every file that ends in ".orig", rename the file by removing the trailing ".orig".

Example 3:

            rename.pl '$_ .= ".old"' *.cc
          

will append ".old" to the name of every file that ends in ".cc".

Author:

Larry Wall

Reference:

1. Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington,
   Chapter 9.9, Renaming Files,
   The Perl Coookbook,
   O'Reilly, 1999.

Source Code:

For "security" reasons, we seem to be unable to supply a file whose extension is "pl", so the Perl script has an extension of "perl". Source code files you may copy include:

• rename.perl, the source code;

You can go up one level to the PERL source codes.