Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:37:37 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.2.7-1 Message-ID: <20050414173737.GB12274@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050413050050.4F97A57D98@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/