[ale] GRRRRRR .... Regular expressions .....

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

find foo -type f -name '*.php3' | xargs rename.pl 's/\.php3$/.php/'


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# rename - Larry's filename fixer
$op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n";
chomp(@ARGV = <STDIN>) unless @ARGV;
for (@ARGV) {
    $was = $_;
    eval $op;
    die $@ if $@;
    rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}


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