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Re: Using stupid filenames in shell scripts



On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 12:24:05AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:

> 2: The "rename" man(1) page, which refers to the command we
>    are talking about, is headed "Perl Programmers Reference 
>    Guide", which seems completely wrong to me.  

Well, the script "/usr/bin/rename", seems to be a simple wrapper to the
perl function "rename".  It appears to take the exact same parameters in
the same way.  So while the man page is referencing the perl function
it's still valid (although slightly misleading) for the wrapper script.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

Remember, root always has a loaded gun.  Don't run around with it unless
you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar



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