X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:59:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Desperately seeking "rename" Message-ID: <20100521135933.GB15975@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4BF68C9D DOT 9030301 AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BF68C9D.9030301@bonhard.uklinux.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple