Re:Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
by kelnos on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:04AM
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Sigh. Nearly every Linux/macOS/UNIX box you run into will have bash or something that will do brace expansion. Same goes for having standard tools like sed, awk, echo, etc.
You can't say the same thing about a bespoke shell function that gives you editable renames.
> Sure you can come up with "reasons" to do things differently, but, not by argument, but by fiat, I tell you that they are irrelevant and my way is strictly the better way to do things.
That's not what anyone is doing and you're attacking a straw man.
You can't say the same thing about a bespoke shell function that gives you editable renames.
> Sure you can come up with "reasons" to do things differently, but, not by argument, but by fiat, I tell you that they are irrelevant and my way is strictly the better way to do things.
That's not what anyone is doing and you're attacking a straw man.