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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with PATH Post 303020792 by wbport on Friday 27th of July 2018 01:14:34 PM
Old 07-27-2018
Right now my script look like:
Code:
if [ $# -eq 1 -a -s $1 ]
  then
  cp -p $1 $1.bak
echo "While using vi, $1.bak has been created."
sleep 1
fi
/usr/bin/vi $*
if [ -f $1.bak ]
  then
  rm $1.bak
fi

I realize vi can edit a number of files, start at a specific position, or after a search, but we seldom use any extra bells or whistles. Near the end of a Y2K conversion script, a vi searched for "-YEAR" in the command line, but that was 19 years ago.

Thanks for looking at it, I might revisit this thread and check for new ideas in the near future.
 

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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
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