[Pdx-pm] command line question

Andrew Savige ajsavige at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jul 12 22:33:17 CDT 2004


Thomas J Keller wrote:
> This seems like one of those easy things easier ...things
> I want to rename all the files in a directory substituting an 
> underscore for any spaces in the filename. I can write a program using 
> IO::Dir, But it seems like that should be doable from the command line.

Larry's rename command also gets a mention here:
 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part2/
in answer to the question:
 2.6)  How do I rename "*.foo" to "*.bar", or change file names to lowercase?
(And is also discussed in Perl Cookbook, Recipe 9.9 "Renaming Files").

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