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>Chapter 19. Miscellaneous</H1
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>The miscellaneous chapter contains commands that don't really fit into the other sections of this guide.</P
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>renaming extensions</DT
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>To rename all of the files in the current directory with a '.htm' extension to '.html', type:</P
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>You can get a copy of <EM
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>For more complex renaming you should read <A
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>Use rel to analyze text files for relevance to a given set of keywords. It outputs the names of those files that are relevant to the given keywords, ranked in order of relevance; if a file does not meet the criteria, it is not outputted in the relevance listing.</P
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>There is a man page, part of the <SPAN
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>To access this man page type:</P
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