Want to rename file
Command is called move
fuck you GNU fuck you in yr fucking ass
Want to rename file
Asher Hernandez
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Jason Gomez
There's literally no difference between moving and renaming a file. Why would you need two commands when one will do?
Jonathan Edwards
mv original.txt urafaggot.txt
> stay mad kid.
Nolan Davis
Theres a command called rename
Colton Davis
rm -R /
Hudson Davis
Heres why
Jacob Scott
my guess is move is correct and that is related to how the file system operates
Samuel Hill
>imbailin it's gnu that made this shit up
Jayden Taylor
Ah I see yr "cute" little attempt to have me force remove all my files including root didn't work again. You thought it was funny, but now yr going to pay the price goddammit. I'll have you know that I have been hacking since 6 months old on an IBM pc, I only code in machine code and assembly, and I have personally coded over 150 GNU/Linux distros.
Carter Bennett
most linux distributions have a rename command which is much more powerful than simply renaming a single file, rename can use regular expressions and a list of files to rename them all according to a rule you describe.
Caleb Evans
cat doesn't print cowsay equivalent with cat
Gabriel Collins
alias rename=mv
brainlet pls go
Daniel Lopez
it's the most retarded alias I've ever seen,
at least write is as a function with a guard for $# ne 1
Kayden Gutierrez
gee, it's almost like i only spent 3 seconds engineering it
Xavier Rivera
there's no such thing as a rename
Hudson Hill
>something something alqaeda something something you're fucking dead kid
Michael Stewart
You're not getting in my cab wet!
Thomas Hill
rename 'regex' filename
There is user, and it uses regexes
Jason Fisher
>people don't know that there is also a command called rename
Ryder Wood
>debian thingy
not standard
Kevin Roberts
I have it on arch.
Kevin Gray
correct. when you rename in a file browser, you are moving
>/Documents/oldname.txt
to
>/Documents/newname.txt
OP is an idiot because the mv function does the exact same thing as if it was say rn (for rename)
>mv [oldname] [newname]
>rn [oldname] [newname]
OP is either a bait master or the biggest idiot on the planet
Ethan Smith
>part of util-linux
man7.org
>util-linux is a standard package distributed by the Linux Kernel Organization for use as part of the Linux operating system.
Nathan Ross
rename command is rm
Brandon Nguyen
Not quite; the rename program would likely refuse to move files across filesystem boundaries, just like the rename* syscalls. It's an additional feature that mv can also copy and delete files for you.
Jordan Cooper
i think they're different btw or im thinking of something else anyway rename oldnew new * werks on argh
Sebastian Green
>debian
>regex
>fedora
>glob
Jacob Scott
Why can't I be both
Ian Garcia
There are multiple rename utils tho, two i know of are, perl's rename(quite handy, comes with builtin regexes) and rename from linux-utils.
Ethan Ortiz
It wasn't created just to rename files. It just so happens that you're using it to do that, hence there's nothing wrong with the name.
Julian Butler
and the debian one isn't standard
Charles Thompson
>I have personally coded over 150 GNU/Linux distros
Cant wait to install PoOS
Julian Lewis
could you expand on this? i dont do much command line stuff because most of my work is done in IDE's but are you saying mv doesnt work for moving a files from an ext4 partition to ntfs? why is that so? and how would one do such a thing. i mean you'd be an idiot to move a file across partitions but why doesn't it let you regardless?
Julian Garcia
Of course it does, except it's equivalent to running cp && rm (aside from additional flags to preserve metadata like modification date) – a brand new file is created in the new place and filled with the same content, then the original file is deleted on success.
Within the same filesystem, it just swaps directory entries for the same file around without touching its data.