Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster > > One fly in the ointment might be renaming one file to the same name as > an already existing file. > Here there be tigers ;-) I did pull out the directory name to prevent renaming that, and additional checks could be added to prevent the unlikely duplicate name. In general operations of this type are not safe, people do them because they are convenient. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
