Digital UNIX Diffs - rename(5) Digital UNIX Diffs - rename(5)NAMErename - Renames a directory or a file within a file system
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int rename (
char *from,
char *to );
PARAMETERS
Identifies the file or directory to be renamed. Identifies the new
pathname of the file or directory to be renamed.
DIFFERENCESvms-files(5): OpenVMS File System Differences
The syntax of to and from filenames is different on UNIX and OpenVMS.
File names on OpenVMS are also case insensitive.
rename(2) on OpenVMS has similar features to the DCL rename command.
This results in the following differences:
OpenVMS supports multiple versions of files; UNIX does not. If you
rename "xyz.dat" to ""xyz.abc" on OpenVMS, only the most recent version
of this file is renamed. The prior version becomes the current ver‐
sion. On UNIX, the from file will not longer exist.
On OpenVMS, if the from file has no file extension (e.g. ".c"), the
file extension of the to file is assumed. UNIX does not support this
behavior (file extensions are just a naming convention).
On OpenVMS if to names a directory and from names a file, the file is
renamed to the target directory. On UNIX, to and from must both be
files or directories.
OpenVMS supports wildcards in from; UNIX does not.
Both systems don't support renaming an open file. On OpenVMS the
results are undefined; on UNIX you get an [EBUSY] error.
RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: rename(2)CATEGORY INDEXvms-files(5)
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Digital UNIX Diffs - rename(5)
