Quoting Mark's tech help (markinda...@hush.com): > Reason: I'm running my usual, minimalist distro! (Busybox does too > many things on this.) You.. you lucky, decked-out full-installation > people, you! But really, mmv looks great-- will have to install it. > Thanks for the tip.
Yr. welcome. mmv is one of numerous ways of filling the functionality-hole that newcomers to Unix from MS-DOS inevitably found perplexing (back in the day). The difference lies in the way arguments get processed. Unix shells expand globs before passing the arguments off to the called executables. The MS-DOS COMMAND.COM shell did not. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech