rename a file

There are a few problems to take in consideration when renaming a file list.

An example is the most common way of renaming a file in Microsoft Windows.

You could simply rename a file to $sys$.

Also, when renaming a file, Explorer only highlights the filename without selecting the extension.

Renames a file or directory.

OSCLI can also be used to rename a file.

Yes, there were many warning dialogs, but the point is that renaming a file should not be so fraught with danger, warnings or no warnings.

In some implementations, is affected by renaming a file (both original Unix and modern Linux tend to do this).

The Finder now supports an "Undo" command that can reverse almost any single action, including moving, copying, or renaming a file or folder.

The Explorer interface of Microsoft Windows XP does not allow the user to rename a file with an initial '.'

Pressing F2 in Windows Explorer in attempt to rename a file would instead undo an earlier file operation, with potentially disastrous consequences if the actual effect went silently unnoticed.

Renaming a file, moving a file (or a subdirectory) from one directory to another and deleting a file are examples of the operations provide by the file system for the management of directories.

Consequently, renaming a file when this mode is enabled requires that either the file's random initialization vector be offset by the change in the filename initialization vector chain, or the data be re-encoded.

A file name may be up to 16 bytes in length and theoretically will be unique; by using direct access methods on the directory structure, it is possible to rename a file to that of another-although accessing such files may be difficult or impossible.

A common complaint with CVS is that it uses the name of a file to identify its revision history, so moving or renaming a file is not possible without either interrupting its history, or renaming the history and thereby making the history inaccurate.

Attempts to open the file for writing, create a file within the directory, remove a file from the directory, rename a file within the directory, rename the file or directory, or remove the file or directory will fail with a permissions error.