[2025-06-22 10:23:12+0100] Nuno Silva:
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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"?)
I know FreeBSD rename(1) is the perl one, and it seems like Debian
changed perl rename from `rename` to `file-rename` in bookworm:
Before: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/rename
After: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/rename
And has util-linux rename as `rename.ul`: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/util-linux/filelist
Best regards
