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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Looking for "rename" program source previously posted
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Date: 26 May 88 21:53:06 GMT
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Reply-To: gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
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You should be able to pull this program out of the comp.sources.misc archives
somewhere. If not, I have written a renaming program which does what is 
described in the man page, plus some extra stuff:

RENAME(1J)           Gandalf's Utilities Box           RENAME(1J)

NAME
     rename - change the names of a set of files

SYNOPSIS
     rename specs... files...

DESCRIPTION
     Rename will change the names of all the given files  accord-
     ing  to  the  replacement instructions and flags supplied in
     specs. The following options are available:

     -i   (interactive) will prompt the  user  if  the  resulting
          file already exists.

     -v   (verbose) produces a verbose protocol of what the  pro-
          gram does.

     -l   (lowercase) coerces all characters to lowercase charac-
          ters before any substitutions are performed.

     -t   (trailing dot) remove any trailing dots from  the  file
          names before any substitutions are performed.

     -n   (cut chars) cut the first n characters off the original
          filename before any substitutions are performed.

     The valid replacement specifications are

     old=new
          Replace all occurrences of old in a file  name  by  the
          string  new (no recursive substitutions, replacement is
          done left to right).

     string=
          Delete the substring string in all file names.

     ^prefix
          Use this prefix for all file names.

     =suffix
          Append this suffix to all file names.

AUTHOR
 
     Juergen     Wagner,      CSLI,      Stanford      University
     (gandalf@csli.stanford.edu, formerly at Fraunhofer-Institute
     IAO, Stuttgart,

Sun Release 3.2   Last change: 5th March, 1987                  1

I've used this program a lot when I transferred friles between TOPS20 or
MSDOS and UNIX (remove trailing dots, lowercase file names).

I'll mail it on request.

-- 
Juergen "Gandalf" Wagner,		   gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA