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Simon Robert wrote:
> Hi
> I need to do some photo file name changes on a server. The CMS has a
> facility which uses regular expresssions and I can't make any sense of
> it. I understand that there is some way of doing batch changes using
> ftp, but don't know how.
>
> Does anyone know of an ftp app that does batch name changes?
Not I.
I think FTP only allows "rename a b", so anything that lets you create a
list of commands of that type will be equivalent to such a tool.
So "nlist" to list the files to a local file, $EDITOR to change that
list to "rename a b", and "ftp {options} < commandsfile" should do the
trick.
Might be easier to try "curlftpfs" and tools like "mmv", but I'm not
braved that myself for anything important to me.
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