Re: Changing file names with "--" to "-" recursively

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-02-21 10:47]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> > The command:
> >
> > $ rename 's/--/-/g' *
> >
> > does not work on my side as it works on yours, maybe it is
> > different software.
> 
> Works here!
> 
> $ rename --version
> 
>   /bin/rename using File::Rename version 1.13,
>   File::Rename::Options version 1.10
> 
> By Larry Wall, I read in rename(1p), from the "User
> Contributed Perl Documentation". You gotta love it :)

Sure, I remember that one.

My command is from from util-linux 2.29.2

But it does not matter, the iteration that was proposed replaces both
of them.