Unrenameable file?!
 

Hello, check this out, what am I doing wrong?

Try `mv` instead of `rename`.

You are using the rename command, which is used to change substrings in file names.

What you want to do:

mv line-dozen2.avi Cheaper.By.The.Dozen2.avi

See:

man rename
man mv

Also:

apropos rename

In linux, when you want to rename one file you use "mv"

Like this:

mv file1.txt file2.txt

file1.txt will be moved to file2.txt

Rename is used to rename groups of files and requires three arguments.

what?
why would I want to use MV which ment to MOVE files! and not rename which named to rename files?


EDIT : Thanks! it works
but lol! Rename should be able to rename file(s) without any difficulties!

because it works that way in Linux?

haha... though I think rename should do this work aswell!

maybe someone will read this and compile this feature in the next kernel?

The first argument is a perl expression, the second one is a file. For what you are trying to do, mv is the right command.
For rename the correct arguments go like this:
rename is meant for renaming a whole bunch of files at once. As for moving rather than renaming, you can think of it as moving from /some/path/name1 to /some/path/name2. The fact that it is renaming is sort of a side effect. Furthermore mv is less typing than rename :)

it's not part of the kernel...