Filename conversion

[gabriel]

On April 12, 2004 02:35 am, gabriel wrote:
> On April 11, 2004 04:20 pm, John Vetterli wrote:
> > There seems to be more than one flavour of rename out there.  On my
> > Slackware system, to change the spaces to underscores, "rename ' ' _ *"
> > would do the job.  On my debian system, it would be "rename 's/ /_/' *".
> > So check your man page.
>
> my system (gentoo) does it the slackware-way, but really want the
> debian-way. any idea where i could get it?

nevermind.  the solution was far too easy:

  # emerge rename

that's it, i'm goin' to bed.

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