X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=KO8PZ0CzsNE5k4TEQnTuE6KbvVR9XzPogMvk3d+wv/N FYU9RkLRSu7zdTQy9jSSHVYEE8Fl+jiPrb7bLfArSCgNIMm4AQMFpY0jZo6kLytI +cu9knDOTPCPM5Fi2jPA+wYwVs8v5mr1D7EzUg19YQJoQlN5lbL1ApK/Gc7W9A38 = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=UHmNq04UWiv4jRiNHuMHQfnveBI=; b=j4UMgQWJhaL2JPW9/ 6MpZtX1mX+wxaYG8hyhUjU1MRaoBfCITHfZWOTK+yTp5cLBn9YoX7IFG7dZJGXlL RP0Xj8dbP4kgyVKngr6x/284i3NIaDdGKqw20rRKGz8Xzf8bt+Af4VTZxdrJ7akM Afqx8yiksdnoX2Yy1Vz5pi8qIA= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wg0-f42.google.com X-Received: by 10.194.23.69 with SMTP id k5mr24153347wjf.31.1409669828829; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5405DAC0.70405@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:57:04 +0200 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: cygwin rename util doesn't parse leading dash in expression argument correctly (thinks it is an option) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 02/09/2014 16:43, Dat Head wrote: > Cygwin 1.7.30-1 > > $ ls -l *-fixed.flac > -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 a-fixed.flac > -rw-r--r-- 1 foo None 0 Sep 1 13:47 b-fixed.flac > > $ rename '-fixed' '' *-fixed.flac > rename: unknown option -- f you need to tell rename that the options are ended with -- $ rename -- '-fixed' '' *-fixed.flac $ ls *flac a.flac b.flac -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple