X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 9BDDB3858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: rename using regexpr - is it possible? To: Fergus Daly , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <1edc0f18-60e9-8769-e931-2875e910cb9e@cs.umass.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 11:12:03 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com Sender: "Cygwin" On 10/24/2021 10:29 AM, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: > I might be wrong but: > The Cygwin implementation of rename seems completely different from "the" (my) Linux version. > (Almost unique? Otherwise the matching in Cygwin of all syntax - vocab, switches, outcomes - to Linux, seems almost perfect.) > Can I rename a set of files *.d (say) as filename.d -> XXfilename.d? > In Linux this would be achieved by > $ rename 's/^/XX/g' ./*.d > whereas in Cygwin > $ rename ^ XX *.d > (and all similar attempts) fails. > Thank you. You're confusing perl-rename with util-linu rename. The former, which seems to be what you want, can be installed using cpan (install File::Rename), assuming you have perl installed. It will put its rename command in /usr/local/bin, presumably taking precedence over the util-linux one in /usr/bin. It further seems that "normally" these two have different names, like rename.ul and prename, and /etc/alternatives is used to set up the rename command. This required some web searching to determine ... Cheers - Eliot -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple