[Herts] Command Line Bingo - Wednesday 11th April.

[Ian Gregory]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:23:08AM +0100, Paul Dixon wrote:

> That came around fast! Here are some bingo suggestions...
> 
> David P: strace
> James R: expiry
> Ian G: rename

I am in a dilemma (nice motor, as the old joke goes) - I have
not been to a meeting of the Welwyn Hatfield Environmental
Network for probably over a year, and it only comes round
every three months, and it is on tonight at 7.30pm in WGC.
So I think I will have to go to that, but I may be along to
HertsLUG afterwards.

In Mac OS X "rename" is not a command, but it is a BSD system
call (that can be called from C if you include stdio.h).
Fortunately I have a shell account on a Debian box where
rename is a command, though not really a traditional one, as
/usr/bin/rename is a perl script. If I wasn't so rusty on
perlexpr I could explain it no problem - I will see if I have
time to swat up and may see you tonight.

If you are looking for people to pay an annual sub then
count me in - if I don't make it tonight then I can hand over
the dosh next time (assuming it is roughly comparable to last
year's sub).

Ian

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Ian Gregory
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/