On 2025-06-22, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote: > As rename(1) doesn't uses an expression (like regex or glob) but > rather a substring. [...] > -*rename* [options] _expression replacement file_... > +*rename* [options] _original replacement file_... [...] Oh. I was aware of there being at least two different "rename" utilities on Linux systems, this one from util-linux and a perl-based one using regexes, but I hadn't noticed this wording in the online manual and usage output. Yes, this change probably helps telling it apart from the perl-based rename. (I don't recall what made confusion more prone in the case of this utility, was it that some distributions installed the perl one as "rename"?) -- Nuno Silva Who hopes the Cc works properly.
