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Re: How to control the email file name procmail produces

2011-01-28 12:22:53
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:06:25AM -0800, Professional Software Engineering 
wrote:
At 06:07 2011-01-28, Michelle Konzack wrote:
you can follw the tips of LuKreme and Sean but IF YOU REALY need the
messages on a Windows system, you can use TRAP to rename it using

   TRAP='rename "s|:2|_2|" ${LASTFOLDER}'
[...]
Next, surely you mean the 'mv' command - 'rename' is a dos-ism.

rename is a perl script, and is installed by default as part of the base Perl install (as /usr/bin/rename) by a lot of Debian-based Linux distros. It takes a Perl expression and a list of files, renaming those files according to the results of evaluating the expression.

As a trivial example, 'rename "s/foo/bar/" *.c' would replace 'foo' with 'bar' in the names of all the .c files in the current directory. But because it's a Perl expression, it gives you a lot of flexibility.

Ed

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