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Sam Kuper wrote:

> 1) Was the rename utility removed from cygutils at some point between
> version 1.2.6-1 and 1.3.2-1, or is my version of cygutils somehow
> corrupt?
> 2) If it was removed, why, and is there some other way I can obtain
> the rename utility under cygwin? (NB. please don't just suggest I use
> "for i in *; do mv ${i} ${i#foo}; done", etc. - I'm asking
> specifically for the rename *utility*, not a rename capability.)

Everything is in the announcements.  It was moved out of cygutils in
1.3.0 and into util-linux:

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-04/msg00003.html>
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-04/msg00009.html>

Brian

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