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According to David Arnstein on 8/26/2007 11:31 PM:
> ----- Forwarded message from "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" 
> 
> Ronald Fischer wrote:
>> Is there an easy way to rename a file foo to Foo?
>>
>> mv foo Foo 

Upgrade to the experimental coreutils-5.9-5, and this should 'just work'.
 If I don't hear any more negative reports, then I will consider promoting
this to current this week.

> This does not work for me. From my cygwin/bash prompt:
> 
> Strix 516> type rename
> rename is hashed (/usr/bin/rename)
> Strix 508> touch xxx
> Strix 509> rename xxx Xxx
> Strix 513> ls x*
> xxx

That's because rename requires at least three arguments, not two:
old-pattern, new-pattern, files that should be changed.  As in:

rename xxx Xxx xxx

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