On 2005-06-18, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Friday June 17 2005 12:19 pm, Aarre Laakso wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I run Debian unstable. I noticed today that I don't have a 'rename'
>> command in /usr/bin anymore,
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> I can't recall 'rename' being a command anywhere but MS-DOS. You=20
> probably meant 'mv'.
It's in every Linux distro I've used, including Debian.
There are at least two versions; in Debian it's a perl script; in
others (Mandrake, at least) it's a compiled executable.
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