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From: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Renaming groups of files
Message-ID: <6359@slate.BBN.COM>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 13:16:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 13:16:15 1987
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Summary: Use "rename" which was posted to the net a while back

In article <2271@calmasd.GE.COM> jmm@calmasd.UUCP (James Moore) writes:
>What's the best way to go about renaming groups of files

There's a program called "rename" by Gilles Chartrand (whose email address
I do not have) that does exactly this.  It was posted to net.sources or
mod.sources quite a while ago.  If there's sufficient interest, I can 
repost it (after I return from Usenix).  It's nicer than some of the
alternatives I've seen suggested in that it doesn't require forking copies
of "mv" to do the renaming.  It's less nice than some because "mv" will
move things across filesystems, whereas the rename() system call used directly 
will not.
-- 
 Matt Landau			    "Lead me not into temptation...
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