From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 23:45:42 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:51 AM Michael Kjörling <michael@kjorling.se> wrote:
In Debian, that's https://packages.debian.org/stable/rename; I suspect
> other systems with reasonably large package repositories also offer it
> prepackaged.
>
Not always, though. Some distros package GNU rename <
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html> instead, which can
only convert a fixed string to another fixed string.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward
one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk
to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-08 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-06 9:53 Tyler Adams
2020-10-06 15:17 ` John Cowan
2020-10-07 2:25 ` Random832
2020-10-07 2:58 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07 9:22 ` arnold
2020-10-07 9:45 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-10-08 3:45 ` John Cowan [this message]
2020-10-09 18:21 ` Random832
2020-10-08 0:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-08 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2020-10-08 2:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-06 15:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 23:11 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-06 23:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07 0:23 ` Warner Losh
2020-10-07 0:32 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07 0:33 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07 3:14 ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 21:29 ` Greg A. Woods
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