Re: Removing a space from file name
[email protected] (Smoot Carl-Mitchell via beginners)
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On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 08:01 +0800, walt via beginners wrote:
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > while (<*>) {
> > rename $_, "$1$2.jpg" if $_ =~ /(.+) (.+)\.jpg/;
> > }
> >
>
> what does <*> mean here?
<*> iterates over the current directory and returns every filename in
the directory to the $_ variable. The '*" can be any glob pattern. e.g.
for the specific jpg files in the example, I could have used <*.jpg>
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