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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.084245.3495@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 08:42:45 GMT
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In  <1990Nov12.025436.3189@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> (12 Nov),
Ken Yarnall (yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu) writes:
> In article <7025@sugar.hackercorp.com> Peter da Silva writes:
> +OK, quick. How do you rename all whatever.c-or-h files to old.whatever.c-or-h
> +with wildcards instead of slices?
>
> Well, this is as quick as I can get :-)
>
>
> First, I used Arp's copy command. [....]
>
> copy #?.(c|h) old.#?
>
> Works like a champ. [....]
>
> Admittedly, one can construct convoluted examples that won't be doable this
> way.  Come up with a useful one, though, and I'll be impressed...
>

Well how about this recent one of mine (for which I used my Mat script
discussed elsewhere...)?  I had been calling my 'IP:' module 'IPHandler'
(.c, .o, .lnk etc...) and decided I would prefer 'IP-Handler'.  Done on
all the files in one step by:

            REN IP^Hand#? ^0-^1

(Had to edit the makefile and link file by hand, of course, but that was
easy.)

Not an isolated instance, either.  The IP-device fan-out program I'm
working on, I tentatively called 'Itee', without liking the name much (a
'tee' is only two way).  Now someone has suggested 'mani' (for 'manifold')
so I'm about to do:

            REN itee^#? mani^1

Useful enough? (:-))

                                        -- Pete --