> I was looking up the rename command and on a website it was calling it a > Dos command and the equivalent Linux command is 'mv' I keep forgetting > about 'mv' but it works very well in renaming in console mode. > Since I can never get that rename command to work, but mv does. Is there > some alias script that doesn't work all the way. Meaning: rename is > recognized, but it never changes the name. Just wondering. I'm going to > use 'mv' from now on, that old dos command just seems to stick in my > head (age is showing). :) >
rename and mv are two entirely different things. rename is intended for batch replacing of part of filenames; to do the same as mv does with rename you need rename old-name new-name old-name (weird, is not it?) and even that probably does not work across directories. -andrej
