Name
rename
Synopsis
rename oldname, newname
Description
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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