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Re: Renaming multiple files

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: Andy Spiegl <zsh.Andy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Renaming multiple files
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:38:09 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20000118181812.A32114@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from Andy Spiegl at "Jan 18, 2000 06:18:12 pm"
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Andy Spiegl wrote:
>> 553 jean-luc@picard (ttypts/12) ~/test/zsh> zmodload files
>What does that command mean?

It loads the `files' module.  Modules generally add new capabilities to
zsh; this module provides some new builtin commands, among them `mv'.
The result is that, in the loop, the zsh process actually calls rename(),
rather than forking off a new process to exec /bin/mv.

-zefram

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- Re: Renaming multiple files
  - From: Andy Spiegl

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