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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:37:37 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.2.7-1
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:29:53PM +0100, zzapper wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:00:50 +0200 (CEST),  wrote:
>>The cygutils package has been updated to 1.2.7.  This adds a 'rename'
>>utility, and fixes some issues with cygstart.
>>
>>o Changes from version 1.2.6-1 - rename.exe added (contributed by
>>Christopher Faylor)
>
>Rename seems rather cute
>
>eg
>
>>rename .htm .html *.htm
>
>will fix the extension of your html files
>
>man rename

Yeah, one of the rpms that I am working on building for my real job (tm)
actually used rename on linux.  It was news to me that this program even
existed.  I usually write some kind of for loop to do this.

Now the challenge will be remembering that this command exists the next time
I need to do something like the above.

cgf

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