[Joao Eriberto Mota Filho] > Re-name [...] is a small and quick tool written in C so it's quicker > than most rename tools written in shell scripts.
[citation needed] I'm suspicious of this claim for two reasons. - The obvious tool to compare with is 'prename' (mentioned up-thread), which we already ship, and that's not shell but Perl. In terms of efficiency, this may be quite significant, as it uses the rename() system call, whereas a shell implementation would have to fork 'mv' for each file. - In my experience and belief, the efficiency of a mass rename operation is dominated by the filesystem overhead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
