On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:12:24AM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > > > But obviously not the best or easiest way. How is it I've used *nix for > > all these years and never heard of this command? > > I've wondered the same thing on a few occasions. > Maybe it's because mv is easier to use if you're only renaming one file > or because there are quite a few programs called rename that all do > different things (or the same thing in different ways).
you've never heard of "rename" because it never existed until recently. it's first incarnation, near as i can tell, was as a really handy utility in o'reilly's "unix power tools" book, and it was a shell script. sometime after that is when it seems to have appeared as a regular command. i could be wrong, feel free to correct me. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
