[plug] Remove first sp[ac]e in a filename

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Thu Jul 12 13:53:31 WST 2001


Jason Nicholls wrote:
> 
> > Rename is a damn handy utility!!
> 
> Note that rename is not included in RH6.x or earlier releases. I found this
> out as the RH7.x Apache packaged required rename during the build process (on
> a RH6.2 box).

I thought I alluded enough to the fact that it wasn't a standard command. ^_^

Hey, wow!! Under Debian it's actually a part of the "perl" package. (I
*thought* its Regexp support was amazingly Perl Compatible - now I know why...)
Yes, it does seem to be in stable/Potato, as well as Woody & Sid.

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