From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10186 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 17:38:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Jan 2000 17:38:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 21915 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2000 17:38:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2892 Received: (qmail 21908 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 17:38:15 -0000 Subject: Re: Renaming multiple files In-Reply-To: <20000118181812.A32114@br-online.de> from Andy Spiegl at "Jan 18, 2000 06:18:12 pm" To: Andy Spiegl Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:38:09 +0000 (GMT) CC: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL65 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram Andy Spiegl wrote: >> 553 jean-luc@picard (ttypts/12) ~/test/zsh> zmodload files >What does that command mean? It loads the `files' module. Modules generally add new capabilities to zsh; this module provides some new builtin commands, among them `mv'. The result is that, in the loop, the zsh process actually calls rename(), rather than forking off a new process to exec /bin/mv. -zefram