mved

What is mved?

mved renames multiple files and directories in a deeply paranoid fashion. At the slightest hint that you are going to destroy your files, it will bail out and tell you why.

mved is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

For more information, read the manual entry in the Documentation section.

Examples

• mved =.c~ bak/=.c.bak

      mv a.c~ bak/a.c.bak
      mv b.c~ bak/b.c.bak
      mv c.c~ bak/c.c.bak

• mved '*.[ch]' save-=.=

      mv a.c save-a.c
      mv a.h save-a.h
      mv b.c save-b.c
      mv b.h save-b.h

• mved save-=.= =.=

      mv save-a.c a.c
      mv save-a.o a.o
      mv save-b.c b.c
      mv save-b.o b.o

• mved note= note=.txt

      mv note1 note1.txt
      mv note2 note2.txt
      mv note3 note3.txt

• mved '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*' 19=5==6=-=3==4=-=1==2==7=

      mv 191299-app.log 1999-12-19-app.log
      mv 211299-app.log 1999-12-21-app.log
      mv 251299-app.log 1999-12-25-app.log
      mv 281299-app.log 1999-12-28-app.log

• mved '{abc,def}.*' =-v2.=

      mv abc.txt abc-v2.txt
      mv def.txt def-v2.txt

Supported Platforms

mved is written in Perl and should run on any system that has perl(1). There are no dependencies on any non-standard Perl modules.

Documentation

There is a manual entry:

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