On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:53 -0400, Paul Spicer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:49 PM, William L. Thomson Jr.
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>         
>         But not the desired outcome you are seeking. Not sure of the
>         syntax for
>         
>         that, and might have reached the limits on rename. Seems to
>         not handled
>         advanced stuff well, just simple rename.
> 
> Yeah, I don't know why the rename in CentOS isn't as capable as the
> rename in Ubuntu. (The latter supporting regex.)

Different packages providing the same command. Used to be a common
problem of Unix systems of yesteryear and one of the major motivating
factor behind Posix Compliance. Same commands, switches, functions, etc
regardless of *nix operating systems, providing they are POSIX
compliant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

LSB for example is based on POSIX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com

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