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Tuesday January 11, 2005
08:31 PM

brian's a dumbass, 2005

[ #22668 ]

It's not even two weeks into the new year and I'm already a big fat dumbass.

I have a bunch of files named with this pattern:

\d+\.\.txt

Huh? Where did those double dots come from?

my $file = File::Spec->catdir( $folder,
    join ".", $index, '.txt'
    );

Well, which is it going to be? I can either join() on a dot or have the dot in the extension.

No matter: it was easy to fix (code and problem).

perl -e 'for(@ARGV){($s=$_)=~s/\.\././;rename($_, $s)}' *..txt


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  • Check out my rename [plasmasturm.org] script.
  • Similarly, debian's perl package comes with /usr/bin/rename, based on Larry Wall's example from the perl source. I believe it's written up in the Cookbook as well. great stuff, it's saved me many little bits of time here and there.
    rename [ -v ] perlexpr [ files ]
    --

    -DA [coder.com]

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