On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 06:17:05PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> 
> >It's nice to know that commands with this functionality have
> >been introduced, despite the "but it's not Unix!" attitude we
> >all seem to suffer from in some degree or other :-)
> 
> The "Right Thing", of course, would be to write a 1-line shell alias
> or script to perform this action.
> Heaping redundant features on simple commands will end up in something
> like BSD's cat(1).
> 
Or a "rename" flavour with different semantics - a simple alias
may be a little limiting.  I miss, for example, MS-DOS's

	REN *.cob *.dis

or some such.  Not Unix, but useful.

++L