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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 20:45:15 +0100
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Am 04.03.2020 um 04:52 schrieb L A Walsh:
> On 2020/03/03 15:45, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>> 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.
> I'm confused about your terminology. 

The terminology is fine, but the statement isn't quite.  That had better 
have read:

 >> it will find and replace 'anything' _anywhere_in_ the filename, not
 >> just if that's the entire basename.

> You said all of the filenames must match '*.ext'.  

No, I didn't.  I said that rename will work on all files in the cwd 
matching *.ext.  Files in the cwd not matching *.ext will be left alone.

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