Re: finding executable files in a debian package

Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:

You might as well just "unspace *"; it'll noop normal stuff and be idempotent on the problem ones.

Agreed. The manual page indicates that rename(1) won't overwrite existing files accidentally, in as much as overwriting requires use of the -f option, so it should be safe. When using mv on a large number of files, I usually specify mv -i just to make sure.