Re: Perl Rename

[BrowserUk]

Try switching the 's for "s.

[Mad_Mac]

Good idea. I should have thought of that. It get's rid of my error, but the test files aren't getting renamed.

Hmmm ....

[BrowserUk]

Works for me if I invoke like this:

rnm "s/Blah Blah - \d{2} - //" "Blah Blah - 01 - Peter.txt" "Blah Blah
+ - 02 - Lois.txt"

Of course, that requires I supply the names of the files to be renamed because cmd.exe doesn't expand wildcards for you. If you want that to happen, you'll have to modify the script a little:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n";

chomp( @ARGV );
@ARGV = map glob, @ARGV;

for ( @ARGV ) {
  $was = $_;
  eval $op;
  die $@ if $@;
  rename ( $was, $_ ) unless $was eq $_;
}

Then rnm "s/Blah Blah - \d{2} - //" *.txt works.