8 Oct
2020
8 Oct
'20
9:45 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:51 AM Michael Kjörling <michael(a)kjorling.se> wrote:
In Debian, that's https://packages.debian.org/stable/rename; I suspect
other systems with reasonably large package
repositories also offer it
prepackaged.
Not always, though. Some distros package GNU rename <
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html> instead, which can
only convert a fixed string to another fixed string.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward
one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk
to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."