Re: The rename command…

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

2008/8/27 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:

> If so, shouldn't that mean that
> rename is quite a lot slower than it would be if it was written in, for
> example, C, like I think the rest of the Unix/GNU/Linux commands are, such
> as mv?

For an individual call it is slower, but when renaming many files with
one pattern I guess rename would be faster (mv can only rename one
file at a time).

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