"Standard" Unix utilities

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 08:29:00 EST 2006


On 2/21/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> [rename is] not available as a command on FreeBSD. Must be in the GNU
>> fileutils collection.
>
> On my Debian system it's part of perl...

  Just as an additional data point, on Red Hat, it appears to be a
traditional binary (not a Perl script), and part of "util-linux".  So
even the non-standard standards are non-standard.

-- Scott, Ben



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