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04-12-2006, 12:48 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: IRAN
Posts: 7
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rename a file
hello.
how may I rename a file for example test.dat in C?
thanks
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04-12-2006, 12:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Maine, USA
Distribution: OpenSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, others
Posts: 413
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If the program is for linux, you can just set it up to use the rename command. I believe the rename command uses:
Code:
rename old.name new.name old.name
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04-12-2006, 02:10 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Hilliard, Ohio, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Kubuntu
Posts: 1,851
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Take a look at the source code of mv.c
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04-12-2006, 02:15 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Campinas/SP - Brazil
Distribution: SuSE, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 1,499
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man 2 rename
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