[ILUG] global rename

Niall O Broin niall at magicgoeshere.com
Thu Jun 23 21:06:06 IST 2005


On 23 Jun 2005, at 17:33, Kevin O'Riordan wrote:

>> On my Fedora Core 3 system I have a utility called "rename" ...
>
> Debian's rename(1) is different, it's a more powerful & complex perl
> script.  To avoid disaster, check /your/ manpage before using recipes.

Yup - THAT sucks large hairy rocks. It is more powerful, with the full 
power of Perl's regexes, but TBH the Fedora/SuSE one I find more 
useful.


Niall




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