12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
7:32 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:26:34PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
On 12 December 2011 04:17, Alexander Schreiber <als
at thangorodrim.de> wrote:
Substitution symbol for whatever the first wildcard matched. The same goes
for #2, #3, ... mmv is a _very_ useful tool.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 04:59:48PM +0000, Liam
Proven wrote:
Fascinating. I have installed it and will investigate - it looks interesting.
What does the #1 denote in there, though? On 8 December 2011 21:03, Dave McGuire
<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Wrong tool.
If you want to do the above, use mmv:
mmv "*.log" "#1.old" On 12/07/2011 08:14 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> I don't really understand why any techie dislikes it, TBH. It is
> /vastly/ easier than, say, learning to understand how Unix wildcards
> work, let alone regular expressions or something - both things which
> I've not yet mastered after more than 20y of effort.
?UNIX shell wildcards? ?A question mark matches any single character, an
asterisk matches any number of any characters. ?What's so tough about that?
What is so tough is the way that the shell expands them, not the
command. I am assured this is wonderfully useful for many people but
for me it's a complete PITA. For instance, I frequently need to do
things like:
REN *.log *.old
... which works fine on DOS, Windows and most other OSs but doesn't
work on Unix/Linux.