September 2008
4 posts
An Outsider's View of Apple App Store Suckage
Low blood sugar post warning…
Apple’s recent treatment of iPhone developers (reward the hacks but stifle the innovators) is so completely bizarre that it makes me think that someone near the top is actively trying to subvert the whole AppStore concept.
If you deny the best (most innovative, platform-changing) applications a place in the official distribution chain, users and...
Batch rename in unix; mv wildcard via xargs
Sometimes, you need to batch rename a bunch of files that all match the same wildcard.
Let’s say you have a directory that includes a bunch of date-prefixed filenames, like 2008-09-24-www.txt, and you want to rename them like 2008-09-24-www-old.txt. Well, the following xargs kludge performs the equivalent of mv *.www.tx to *.www-old.txt:
ls *.www.txt | xargs -I % basename % .www.txt >...
