Re^3: Renaming Multiple Files with Different Names

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in thread Renaming Multiple Files with Different Names

I do have a text file that matches the name of the current file (i.e. old file name) and the new file name. It's in tabular format.

I feel like it should be a rename code with $ARGV[0] as $old and $ARGV1 as $new. But when I do that it just tries to rename the text file containing the corresponding names.

Also I'm using Strawberry Perl on a PC, so sometimes it doesn't like command line prompts.

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Re^4: Renaming Multiple Files with Different Names by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 02, 2011 at 16:29 UTC
Something like this? `perl -nae 'rename $F[0], $F[1]' newnames.lst` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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