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Copy and rename files with wildcards (globs) (See related posts)

To copy files jgarner_* to Alias_*:

Dir.glob("jgarner_*") { |name| `cp #{name} #{name.sub(/jgarner_/, "Alias_")}`}

or

ruby -e 'Dir.glob("jgarner_*") { |name| `cp #{name} #{name.sub(/jgarner_/, "Alias_")}`}'

to ruby rename glob copy Dir by johnatl on Mon Jun 19 22:41:43 +0000 2006

Comments on this post

nickstenning posts on Jun 22, 2006 at 11:05
You might want to look at zsh's zmv:

zmv -W jgarner_* Alias_*


It's *way* more powerful than that but that's the simplest use case.

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