Re: mv * small_*

I'd use "rename", which applies a perl regexp to a list of filenames

$ rename 
Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]
$ rename 's/^/small_/' *.foo
Can't rename *.foo small_*.foo: No such file or directory
$

Then, to apply imagemagick [options] to each file, you must handle the
files one at a time, and produce an output filename.

$ for i in small_*.foo ; do
> out="new_$i"
> convert $i [options] $out
> done

and the output files are "new_small_<original filename>.foo"
 


On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:56 -0400, James wrote:
> I want to prepend 'small_' to a bunch of files and then resize them 
> with image magic.
> Does anyone know how to do regex with mv?


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