change file names

[Paul Lussier]

"Drew Van Zandt" <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> writes:

> I didn't know it existed until after I wrote a perl script with nearly
> identical behaviour (and the same parameter order) and then typed
> "rename foo bar *" instead of "rename.pl foo bar *" ... and the usual
> rename ran instead of my script.  :-P

Heh, I guess this problem has been around for quite a while and
frustrated a few others too :)

$ man rename
RENAME(1)              Perl Programmers Reference Guide              RENAME(1)
 .
 .
 .
AUTHOR
       Larry Wall

$ file /usr/bin/rename
/usr/bin/rename: perl script text executable

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Seeya,
Paul