[Nepal] question about mass file renaming w/ bash script

[Bernie Innocenti]

Bryan Berry wrote:
> Figured it out, need to match that damn leading period!

It's not a leading period!  In the regex syntax, "." means
"match any character", and "*" means "match previous thing
any number of times".

So, ".*" means "match anything".

And if you want to specify a real dot, you have to escape
it as such: "\."

Why is the regex syntax different from shell globs?  They say for
historical reasons, but I guess it's just an evil trick to confuse
users.

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