[clug] Bashism desired

[Kim Holburn]

I rather like a perl script called prename.  It only does rename/move but it's quite good at bulk rename/moves and uses perl regex.




On 2013/Mar/12, at 12:47 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:

> I often wish there was way to reduce repetition within a single command
> run in Bash to save typing and reduce errors.
> Perhaps there is and it's so obvious I've forgotten/keep overlooking it :/
> 
> Examples:-
> 1. cp some_directory_path/some_file some_directory/some_file.variation
> 2. mv some_directory_path/some_file some_directory/some_otherfile
> 
> Desired solution:-
> 1. cp some_directory_path/some_file $trick/some_file.variation
> or
> 1. cp some_directory_path/some_file $trick/.variation
> 
> 2. mv some_directory_path/some_file $trick/some_otherfile
> 
> 
> Anyone know a Bash shortcut for this?
> aliases are OK (if no other way)
> 
> TIA
> 
> Kind regards
> 
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