[linuxdc-dev] Re: Strange behaviour of rename

[The D. W. <do...@ge...>]

* Adrian McMenamin (ad...@mc...) [030514 14:14]:
> Not sure this is really a linuxdc/sh question at all - but:
> 
> I am still working on vmufs on my Dreamcast and want to mess about with 
> "rename" - however when I run it I get error messages like:
> 
> Bareword "CHU_CHU__RCT" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1) 
> line 1
> 
> A google suggests this is a perl error message!
> 
> It has nothing to do with my file system as it happens on the NFS mounted fs 
> too. What is going on?
> 
> (I am using the m17n debian unstable as my distro)

Uhhh... I suspect that rename isn't what you think it is.  It's a
perl script that lets you do nifty stuff like:
# rename 's/cat/dog/g' *
Which would replace the word 'cat' with 'dog' in all filenames in
the current directory.

You probably want mv.

Ciao!

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