Subject: Re: upgrade to mv
To: Doug Porter <dsp@waterspout.com>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/15/2001 23:11:04
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:33:49AM -0500, Doug Porter wrote:
>
> Robert Schmid wrote:
> >
> > I felt a need to have the `mv` command be able to convert files
> > to lowercase
>
> There is already a pretty good tool for this type of thing which
> you may not have known about, mmv(1). It will let you do all
> kinds of other neat things too. It however doesn't appear to be
> in pkgsrc for NetBSD (although it is for FreeBSD and OpenBSD),
> and I'm not really sure where upstream is. You might try just
> grabbing the orig tarball from Debian if you want to take a look. :/
>
> http://archive.progeny.com/debian/dists/stable/main/source/utils/mmv_1.01b.orig.tar.gz
>
> - Doug
I've added this as pkgsrc/misc/mmv
Regards,
Alistair