On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:48:23 -0500
Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Only a tldr:
Both Debian and Fedora have the simple rename utility that is usable
without perl knowledge.
Only Fedora actually seems to have the extended version of Larry Walls
rename, namely prename, which was done by Peder Stray. While prename
utilities on Debian, that I found *so far*, seem to be renamed (sic! ... :)
versions of Larry Wall's rename.
HTH
--
Wolfgang Pfeiffer
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