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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: HELP converting filenames!
Message-ID: <9766@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Oct 89 04:10:59 GMT
References: <9234@pyr.gatech.EDU> <5003@omepd.UUCP> <9754@cadnetix.COM> <2694@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <2694@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>|First, go to the directory of interest and do 'ls -1 > doit'.
[...emacs conversion of "FILENAME" to "mv FILENAME filename"]

>What?  You have to do all that in emacs, and you still claim it's
>better than vi?  To save vi's lost honor, here's how it should be done:

>:%s/.*/mv & \U&\e/
>One line, no macros needed.

And, of course, you can read the original filenames in with:
:r !ls
and execute the commands in the edited buffer with:
:w !sh

No temporary files needed.

Les Mikesell