[Linux-disciples] Troubles with 'rename'

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:08:27PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Well, my script works. :)

Granted. I just want to understand why 'find' and 'rename'
don't behave the way I expect them to.

> Hm, I'm not sure you can still guarantee that this will do things in the
> right order. It also is going to run rename many more times than
> necessary, since it will run it on each file. I can almost guarantee
> that my script will be faster than your attempted find command on a
> large directory tree.

Your script's trick is to run the rename command once, on
all the files within a given directory. I doubt it would be
so hard to do this with 'find'. Though I'm curious. Once I
get the find approach working, I'll do a test. If there's
any performance hit from your script, it's that it's calling
'lr' recursively, which may lead to a blown stack. But
that's probably not a huge concern.

I realize this may be giving too much to stylistic purity,
but I hope to learn something from it.

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