Bug#207017: perl: rename (in man page) : add an example where the path is changing

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Sun May 31 10:36:38 BST 2020


Control: reassign -1 rename 1.10-1

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:10:25PM -0400, xavier wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.8.0-17
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> As it isn't obvious from the man page that rename
> can handle moving things around, it would be
> nice to provide such example :
> 
> rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/;s/^/my_new_dir\//' *
> 
> which rename lowercase, and move to my_new_dir/

This still seems to be a valid wishlist bug.

rename is no longer bundled in src:perl, so reassigning.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org




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