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Old 01-27-2011
Have you already got this list ? Do we need to cross-reference something to decide what the new name should be ?
Or do you just want to go through each file in the list and decide on the correct name ?
If its the latter, you just have to tweak part of the command:
Code:
-print > outfile

to
Code:
-print | sed -e 's/^/mv "/g' -e 's/$/" /g' > outfile

run it, then edit the "outfile" and append the proper name to the end of each line, and then run the file:
Code:
sh ./outfile

I hope this helps...
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File::Find::Object::Rule::Procedural(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		 File::Find::Object::Rule::Procedural(3pm)

NAME
File::Find::Object::Rule::Procedural - File::Find::Object::Rule's procedural interface SYNOPSIS
use File::Find::Object::Rule; # find all .pm files, procedurally my @files = find(file => name => '*.pm', in => @INC); DESCRIPTION
In addition to the regular object-oriented interface, File::Find::Object::Rule provides two subroutines for you to use. "find( @clauses )" "rule( @clauses )" "find" and "rule" can be used to invoke any methods available to the OO version. "rule" is a synonym for "find" Passing more than one value to a clause is done with an anonymous array: my $finder = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ] ); "find" and "rule" both return a File::Find::Object::Rule instance, unless one of the arguments is "in", in which case it returns a list of things that match the rule. my @files = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ], in => $ENV{HOME} ); Please note that "in" will be the last clause evaluated, and so this code will search for mp3s regardless of size. my @files = find( name => '*.mp3', in => $ENV{HOME}, size => '<2k' ); ^ | Clause processing stopped here ------/ It is also possible to invert a single rule by prefixing it with "!" like so: # large files that aren't videos my @files = find( file => '!name' => [ '*.avi', '*.mov' ], size => '>20M', in => $ENV{HOME} ); AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
File::Find::Object::Rule perl v5.14.2 2012-05-05 File::Find::Object::Rule::Procedural(3pm)