"Standard" Unix utilities

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Tue Feb 21 22:10:01 EST 2006


Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> writes:

> Tom Buskey wrote:
>> Why didn't I see rename?  Aha. rename is a linuxism.  Or GNUism.  It's on
>> linux.  It's on Cygwin.  It's not on Solaris.  It's not on Irix.
>> I don't have a BSD system to test, but it might be on that.
>> I bet it's not on HP-UX or AIX.

On my Debian system it's part of perl...

> It's not available as a command on FreeBSD. Must be in the GNU
> fileutils collection.

Nope, at least not on my Debian systems.
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Seeya,
Paul



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