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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Fergus wrote:
>How does this work, exactly? I'm looking for "rename" as it's not in 
>Base. I go to
>http://cygwin.com/packages/
>and institute a search for "rename"
>http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=rename
>and what I get is
>Found 64 matches for rename
>and a long list. Do I choose one to install? I've already got some of 
>them including binutils and cygutils (in either of which I thought I 
>might have found rename).

If you're looking for the rename utility then you should be searching
for rename.exe.  If you're looking for the rename() function it is part
of Cygwin.

cgf

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