Bash Rename Files
# bash rename
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[10:07 PM] the parentheses mean ‘find this pattern and store it’ (edited) [10:08 PM] then, replace it with ‘Something’, and retrieve the stored value again with $1 NEW [10:09 PM] for adding something to the beginning of files, it’s obviously overkill. but over time the usefulness becomes more apparent. find files based on a really complex regular expression and then rename them in some very specific way, etc… [10:10 PM] i’m still a RegEx novice, but i use them quite a bit for odd things here and there, and they’re great. they’re the foundation of pattern matching in Linux and knowing them means being able to do tons of things with a terminal that other people would need a messy GUI app for [10:11 PM] oh and for rename you can pass the -n flag i believe to see what it will do without doing it. a dry run
small correction to the above - to be parsed correctly, the perl expression should be in quotes [10:17 PM]
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