rename one file
Rodrigo Malara
rodrigomalara at yahoo.com.br
Wed Dec 24 14:45:39 UTC 2003
I experienced this problem too and it appears to be related to the
filesystem type, because it only happened to vfat filesystems.
I remember that a solution was related to setting the proper option when
mounting the filesystem...
> Trevor Smith wrote:
> > The other day I wanted to rename one file from a console window like
> > this:
> >
> > filename.extension
> >
> > to
> >
> > filename.EXTENSION
> >
> > I couldn't find any way to do it while leaving the file in the same
> > directory. I could succeed using KDE/mouse renaming, but mv and cp
> > refused or failed to rename the file while leaving it in the same
> > directory.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
>
> This works fine for me
>
> $ touch file.extension
> $ ls
> file.extension
> $ mv file.extension file.EXTENSION
> $ ls
> file.EXTENSION
> $
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