Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (18/06/05 00:10), Carl Fink wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:49 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
> > > Of course, the difference between it and the lame MS-DOS version is that
> > > you use a perl-compatible regexp to specify the rename scheme ...
> 
> [snip]
>  
> > Have you tried mmv at all? ...
> 
> [more snipping]
> 
> For someone like me who never learned regexps, krename works fine.

Please forgive a dumb question.  Why would you use 'rename' rather 'mv'?

Thanks

Clive

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