Re: The rename command…

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/8/27 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl>

> 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).
>
> --
> Marcin Kowalczyk
>  <qrczak at knm.org.pl>
>
But still, if someone "translated" rename to C and compiled it, it would be
even faster, right? Which should be possible, because the source code for
rename is available somewhere, isn't it? I don't know, only guessing…
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