Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!brunix!doorknob!ars From: ars@cs.brown.edu (Adam Stauffer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Shell wildcard expansion Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 00:21:19 GMT References: <1991Jun24.144854.8879@ap542.uucp> <13912@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Jun24.195425.26387@convex.com> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University Lines: 22 In-reply-to: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 24 Jun 91 19:54:25 GMT In article <1991Jun24.195425.26387@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: From the keyboard of ars@cs.brown.edu (Adam Stauffer): : :}I'm looking for a wildcard expansion mechanism, where for example I could :}do mv *.c *.o. :}E.g. an expansion where I only get the * part. : :There is a really nifty program called "mmv" that allows for all sorts :of fun expansions to occur. It is available at uunet.uu.net in vol 21 :of the comp.sources.unix archive... Maybe you didn't look much at rename script that was posted. It allows things like: Maybe you have never seen mmv so you don't know what it does. Trust me, I wouldn't have posted if it didn't have more functionality than a 30 line Perl script. -a