Re: Removing a space from file name

On 2025-02-18 04:12, Smoot Carl-Mitchell via beginners wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 12:38 -0500, hput wrote:
>> I have several hundred *.jpg files with this pattern
>> 
>> Actual example:
>> 
>>    'AtlantaVisitAndGrandmaHands 056.jpg'
>> 
>> The numbers vary, of course, but the alpha part and number of digits
>> after the space is the same in all *.jpg files
>> 
>> I have hundreds of these all in one directory.  Not something you'd
>> want to do one at a time.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> while (<*>) {
> 	rename $_, "$1$2.jpg" if $_ =~ /(.+) (.+)\.jpg/;
> }
> 

what does <*> mean here?

thanks.