NAME
    App::RegexFileUtils - use regexes with file utils like rm, cp, mv, ln

VERSION
    version 0.02

SYNOPSIS
    Remove all files with a .bak extension:

     % rerm '/\.bak$/'

    Change the extension of all files from .jpeg or .JPG (any case) to .jpg

     % remv '/\.jpe?g$/.jpg/i'

    Copy all Perl files to a different directory:

     % recp '/\.p[lm]$/' /perl/lib

    Create symlinks to .so files so that the symlinks lack a version number

     % reln -s '/\.so\..*$/.so/'

DESCRIPTION
    This distribution provides a version of "rm", "cp", "mv" and "ln" with a
    *re* (as in regular expression) prefix where the file sources can be
    specified as a regular expression, or the file source and destination
    can be specified as a regular expression substitution Perl style. The
    functionality that this provides can be duplicated with shell syntax
    (typically for loops), but I find these scripts require less typing and
    work regardless of the shell you are using.

    The scripts in this distribution do not remove, copy, move or link files
    directly, instead they call the real "rm", "cp", "mv" and "ln" programs
    provided by your operating system. You can therefore use any options
    that they support, for example the "-i" option will allow you to
    interactively delete files:

     % rerm -i '/\.bak$/'

OPTIONS
    In addition to any options supported by the underlying operating system,
    these scripts will recognize the following options (and NOT pass them to
    the underlying system utilities). They are prefixed with "--re" so that
    they do not interfear with any "real" options.

  --recmd command
    Specifies the command to execute. This is usually determined by Perl's
    $0 variable.

  --reverbose
    Print out the system commands that are actually executed.

  --reall
    Include even hidden dot files, like ".profile" and ".login".

METHODS
    These commands can also be invoked from your Perl script, using this
    module:

  App::RegexFileUtils->main( $program, @arguments )
    For example:

     use App::RegexFileUtils;
     App::RegexFileUtils->main( 'rm', '/\.bak$/' );

CAVEATS
    You will need to enclose many regular expressions in single quotes '' on
    the command line as many regular expression characters have special
    meanings in shells.

    The underlying fileutils command (rm, cp, ln, etc) will be called for
    each file operated on, which may be slow if many files match the regular
    expression provided.

    This was written a long time ago and the code isn't very modern.

    Directories with a training slash may be ambiguous with a regex, so if
    you want to use a path as a destination instead of a regex, be sure you
    do NOT include the trailing slash. That is:

     # use this:
     % recp /^foo/ /usr/bin
     # NOT this:
     % recp /^foo/ /usr/bin/

AUTHOR
    Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Graham Ollis.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

