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From: Rob Norris <firstname.lastname@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:47:53 +0000
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Date: 2007-02-23T10:47:53+00:00
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On 22 Feb 2007 09:07:52 -0800, "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote:


>Sigh... this has been one of my pet peeves with Unix for a long time.
>With other operating systems I've worked with, you can enter a command
>like
>
>   rename *.ads *.ada
>
>for instance, to rename a bunch of files.  Unix makes this difficult.
>(Yes, I know how to use "foreach" in csh... but still...)
>
>                       -- Adam

Going off topic a bit..

On my Debian system the rename command takes a perl command, then the files you want to apply it to.
rename s/ads/ada/ *ads

Redhat ones only have substition command so (i think):

rename ads ada *ads