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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
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Subject: Re: PIPEs (really: Slices)
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Date: 12 Nov 90 10:15:31 GMT
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In  <7025@sugar.hackercorp.com> (11 Nov),
Peter da Silva (peter@sugar.hackercorp.com) writes:
>
> OK, quick. How do you rename all whatever.c-or-h files to old.whatever.c-or-h
> with wildcards instead of slices?
> --
Ah.  You were asking a little while ago what Mat did that was unique.
Well (with the aid of a short CLI script) that sort of renaming is EXACTLY
one of the things I use it for.  (The script is on Fish 374 too.) The
syntax -- also showing one of the ways I use '^' -- is:

        REN whatever.(c|h) old.^F

where '^F' in this case means the original filename.

If I prefer whatever_OLD.c as the result, I do:

        REN whatever^.(c|h) ^0_OLD^1

where the '^' in the pattern is the slice point, and ^0 and ^1 are the
resulting pieces.

                                -- Pete --