The China Syndrome

Alarm? An interesting perspective from India, and two recent articles (India-China talks hint at radically changed globe and Europe and China: Competition and partnership can go hand in hand) portend an epoch prevalent of China's rise.

Pretty Dirty

This movie portrays the unseen world of illegal immigrants.

rename

To rename all files matching *.bak to strip the extension,
rename 's/\e.bak$//' *.bak
To translate uppercase names to lower,
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
To fix the extension of html files (from .htm to .html)
rename .htm .html *.htm
To check what will be renamed first BEFORE actually renaming
rename -n 's/current_name/new_name/' More examples:

rename 's/\.flip$/.flop/'       # rename *.flip to *.flop
rename s/flip/flop/             # rename *flip* to *flop*
rename 's/^s\.(.*)/$1.X/'       # switch sccs filenames around
rename 's/$/.orig/ */*.[ch]'    # add .orig to source files in */
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/'             # lowercase all filenames in .
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/ if -B'       # same, but just binaries!
rename chop *~                  # restore all ~ backup files