Re: [tlug] Old dogs / new tricks (was: Kubuntu v5.10)

[Michael Smith <smith@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com> writes:

> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:03:21 +0900, Michael Smith <smith@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is it because it's just too trivial for old-schoolers to
> > just write a one-line bash script or function for doing it?  Or
> > because it's just a Perl script? 
> 
> ???
> 
> $ file `which rename`
> /usr/bin/rename: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

hmm, on my Debian desktop machine:

  $ file `which rename`
  /usr/bin/rename: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/rename'

  $ file /etc/alternatives/rename
  /etc/alternatives/rename: symbolic link to `/usr/bin/prename'

  $ file /usr/bin/prename
  /usr/bin/prename: perl script text executable


-- 
Michael(tm) Smith
http://tokyo.metblogs.com/
http://sideshowbarker.net/
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/890