Hello,

I've had this problem for quite some time now and finally decided to ask about it. Whenever I save a certain file or transfer pictures from my digital camera to my computer, I prefer to rename all the files with lowercase letters and underscores instead of spaces and dashes.

I use: and etcetera.

When I hit return, the shell looks like it is doing the job in the way that it goes "blank" until it finishes.. but the problem is.. it doesn't finish and doesn't respond to any other commands if I try to enter them (ie: exit). I end up having to physically close the shell window in order to make it go away, and when I go back into the directory which has the files i wish to rename, nothing has changed.

My guess is this is some type of bug, but I have no idea how to go about it or what to do next.

Has anyone else had this problem??


Please help! Manually renaming hundreds of files using the GUI is very tedious, time consuming and annoying, and therefore I refuse to attempt it!

Thank you very much in advance!

Isn't "rename" a Perl function, and not a bash one?

If this is the same rename, you need to separate the file list ('*') from the operation:

try using the 'mv' command:

to ataraxia.

Wow i feel like an idiot lol. Thank you very much that's what I meant..

also. i pretty much don't know the difference between bash and perl commands. haha

thanks very much!

no worries ataraxia.

I almost want to bet you 10 bucks you'll never forget the
command anymore :P

learning things in and with linux is so great!

Me? What did I do?

ROFL,

I'm very sorry ataraxia.

this was totally meant for nicdee. I would have edited my own post to correct this, but now that you have posted, and you can't delete your own post, i'll just replied to this.

yeah..my post was meant for nicdee of course :P

I thought so, but it was just too funny to ignore.

On a more serious note, plain "mv" wouldn't have been all that useful - the OP was doing a bulk renaming, for which the Perl "rename" function is, in fact, highly useful.

This one is very usefull for wildcarded renaming
http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/mmv.html

Or try:

Thank you very much to all. All the help is useful.

I hope you all have a good day!

-nicole