[ale] Mass changing of file extension

[Jim Kinney]

so "*\.tsv" wouldn't require the "." before the tsv?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> On 09/14/2012 11:21 AM, Sparr wrote:
> > be careful with this one, it will rename things that end with "tsv"
> > and not just ".tsv", such as perhaps your hypothetical "renametsv"
> > script :)
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:18 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> >> $ rename 's/tsv$/csv/g' *tsv
>
>
> There is no different in the shell globbing between "*tsv" and "*.tsv"
> since "."
> matches any character in a regex.
>
> The ".ext" match is special in MS-Dos/Windows, not UNIX.
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