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- From: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
- Subject: Re: Changing file names
- In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:10:01 GMT
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- <1992Aug20.161001.25653@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:45:54 GMT
-
- In article <1992Aug20.161001.25653@news.eng.convex.com> Tom
- Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
-
- > From the keyboard of nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de:
- > :There have some solutions been posted, which are undoubtedly suited
- > :for this task, but all of them used non-standard tools -- nawk, perl, ...
- >
- > As Mark Bush said, I sincerely hope that the future does not mean we
- > must forever restrict ourselves to the tools that were available ten
- > years ago.
-
- I agree.
-
- The main reason why I suggested a solution with "tools that were
- available ten years ago" is that people asking questions like "how do
- I change these file names" are usually not able (by permissions or
- skill) to install a tool that they want/need.
-
- Another reason is that I considered the solution using sh, sed, and mv
- just simpler (and perhaps easier to understand), and I try to stick to
- the old and simple tools when they are adequate for the problem.
-
- --
- Juergen Nickelsen
-