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Am 04.03.2020 um 00:25 schrieb L A Walsh:
> On 2020/02/28 04:38, Fergus Daly wrote:
>> I am almost certain that the command
>> $ rename "anything" "AnyThing" *.ext
>> would alter the string from lc to uc as shown, anywhere it occurred in 
>> any filename in *.ext in the current directory.
> isn't that they same as "mv anything.xxx Anything.xxx" ?

No.  For three reasons:

*) it's .ext, not .xxx :-)
*) it will find and replace 'anything' _anywhere_in_ the filename, not 
just in the basename.
*) it will do so on _all_ files in the cwd matching '*.ext', not just a 
single one --- that's its entire purpose.

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