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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.)

From /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygutils-1.3.2.README:

----------  cygutils-1.3.0-1 -- 2006-03-20 -----------
* Remove many programs now offered by the util-linux package
  including: cal     col      colcrt  colrm   column  ddate
             getopt  mcookie  namei   rename  rev

--
Chuck

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