Re: [tlug] Old dogs / new tricks

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Michael Smith wrote:

> This makes me wonder how anybody ever finds out about the
> existence of rename(1) without getting informed about it on a
> mailing list or something.

Read a man page a day.  

On my box, graze around /usr/share/man to figure out what 
things to run man on. 

> Is it because it's just too trivial for old-schoolers to
> just write a one-line bash script or function for doing it?  Or
> because it's just a Perl script? 

Godwin Stewart did not post a reference or source code for rename. 
That's a clue that it might be a common standard command.