Ren

The term Ren has several meanings:

• Ren Höek is a character on the cartoon Ren and Stimpy.
• Tao Ren (Len Tao) is a character in Shaman King.
• Ren, son of Primus, is the main protagonist on the animated series The Pirates of Dark Water.
• In computing, ren is a command used to rename files under MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, among others. Proper syntax is generally:

ren oldname newname

In UNIX-like systems, such as Linux and BSD, the mv command is used instead. There is also a move command in DOS and Windows. ren cannot be used to move files between directories, but move can be used to rename them.

• For the Confucian concept Ren (仁), see Confucianism.
• REN can also be an initialism or acronym.