Name
rename
Synopsis
rename oldname, newname
Changes the name of a file from
oldname
to
newname
. It returns 1
for success, 0
otherwise (and puts the error code
into $!
). It will not work
across filesystem boundaries. If there is already a file named
newname
, it will be destroyed.
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