02-20-2008
I'm dealing with the same issue save for the fact that I only have access to FTP on the remote machine. I'm running a script on a local Unix system and connecting to a FTP server on a windows box. What I need to do is move files from \today\*.PDF to \yesterday\*.PDF. All the files I'm moving are PDF's and there are other files in today's folder that I will not be moving. I tried using the "rename *.pdf \yesterday\*" gives the error:
Quote:
550 *.txt: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
I'm not sure what I can do as I am rather limited. I am currently using mget and mput but that takes a ton of bandwidth with these reports. I don't have access to the windows box nor can I install any scripts/programs on it.
I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance!
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
prename
RENAME(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide RENAME(1)
NAME
rename - renames multiple files
SYNOPSIS
rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
"rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The perlexpr argument is a Perl expression
which is expected to modify the $_ string in Perl for at least some of the filenames specified. If a given filename is not modified by the
expression, it will not be renamed. If no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read via standard input.
For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip the extension, you might say
rename 's/.bak$//' *.bak
To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
OPTIONS
-v, --verbose
Verbose: print names of files successfully renamed.
-n, --no-act
No Action: show what files would have been renamed.
-f, --force
Force: overwrite existing files.
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
AUTHOR
Larry Wall
SEE ALSO
mv(1), perl(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
If you give an invalid Perl expression you'll get a syntax error.
BUGS
The original "rename" did not check for the existence of target filenames, so had to be used with care. I hope I've fixed that (Robin
Barker).
perl v5.14.2 2014-09-26 RENAME(1)