Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I wonder if that version is actually prename ('dnf install prename')
> under a different name, which would be nicely ironic ...
Heh. I think they're different. I'm not a Debian user
though, so I could be way off on what follows. :)
This gets quite messy. The /usr/bin/rename command is
managed by alternatives in Debian. The default for rename
in a docker container of Debian 8 is file-rename.
The file-rename command comes from the rename package. It's
installed as file-rename rather than rename based on this
commit:
https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/rename/commit/642262b4
The source of the Debian rename package is the perl
File::Rename module, here:
https://metacpan.org/release/File-Rename
The Fedora prename package points to:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/rename/
That's a different perl rename tool (since you can never
have too many rename tools, obviously). Debian ships
prename as well. It's in the rename alternatives group.
Debian also ships the util-linux rename as rename.ul, but it
doesn't seem to be in the alternatives group for rename.
Clearly, using the command in a script would be insane, as
you'd have more lines of code to determine which version you
were using than it would take to just rename the files using
whatever language the script was written in. :)
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Todd
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