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Top Forums Programming Renaming an executable file Post 96841 by gauravgoel on Tuesday 24th of January 2006 08:07:19 AM
Old 01-24-2006
Hi,

I guess this can be done as follows

cp old_executable new_executable

and if you dont need the old executable do as follows

mv old_executable new_executable

Tell me if this works for u

cheers,
Gaurav

Last edited by gauravgoel; 01-24-2006 at 09:13 AM..
 

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guess-helper(8) 						   NVRAM WakeUp 						   guess-helper(8)

NAME
guess-helper - Tries to guess the configuration by comparing four dumps of the NVRAM. SYNOPSIS
guess-helper DESCRIPTION
guess-helper is a helper program from the package nvram-wakeup. It will guide you through the procedure of creating the files needed for the program guess and eventually will run guess at the end. The output will be a configuration file which might even work ;-) Don't change any other BIOS settings you are not told to change until the procedure is finished. See README.mb for more details. SEE ALSO
nvram-wakeup(8), guess(8), README.mb HOMEPAGE
http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/ AUTHOR
Written by Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>. REPORTING BUGS
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