zmv:tldr:d11bc
The command is written in the zsh shell and uses the zmv
function to rename files.
Here is the breakdown of each part of the command:
-
zmv
:zmv
is a built-in function in zsh shell used for batch renaming of files. -
'$'
: The dollar sign indicates the start of a parameter expansion. It is used to reference the positional parameters in the form of$1
,$2
, etc. -
${(*)-log}
: In zsh,${(*)}
expands to all command-line arguments passed to the current script, while${(*):-log}
expands to the first command-line argument if available, orlog
if no arguments are provided. This is used to select the files to be renamed. So, all files matching the pattern-log
will be affected. -
'${$1-txt}'
:${$1}
expands to the first command-line argument, and'txt'
is appended to it. This means that the-log
extension in the filenames will be replaced with the.txt
extension.
To summarize, the command renames all files ending with -log
by replacing the -log
extension with .txt
.