There's a rename utility that I have used in BSD that I am going to see if its available in Ubuntu as I'm migrating my production server over. It's pretty versatile and allows for regex replacements but I have used it only for string replacements so far. -- Ryan Coleman ryanjcole at me.com m. 651.373.5015 o. 612.568.2749 > On Jul 16, 2014, at 7:37, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > > On my Ubuntu Linux boxes, rename seems to be part of Perl and it was written by Larry Wall, author of Perl. Do you have Perl installed? Maybe if you install it, that will get you "rename". > > Mike > > >> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote: >> >> The rename command is part of core utils for most distros. What are you >> wanting rename on that doesn't have it? >> >> -- >> Jeremy MountainJohnson >> Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com >> >> >>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:59 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: >>> >>> i want rename. not mv (missing --no-copy). anything handy? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list