Archive for October, 2007

Man page for rename

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

RENAME Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (1)Updated: 1 January 2000Index Return to Main Contents   NAME rename - Rename files   SYNOPSIS rename from to file...   DESCRIPTION rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of from in their name by to. For example, given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands rename foo foo0 foo? rename foo foo0 foo?? will turn them into foo001, ..., ...

Man page for id??

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

IDLE Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)Updated: 1994-08-21Index Return to Main Contents   NAME idle - make process 0 idle   SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int idle(void);   DESCRIPTION idle() is an internal system call used during bootstrap. It marks the process's pages as swappable, lowers its priority, and enters the main scheduling loop. idle() never returns. Only process 0 may call idle(). Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, will ...