On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 23:40 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:14:49 -0500
>> Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is "rename" provided by util-linux or is it a perl-provided script?
>>>
>>> The util-linux syntax is
>>>
>>> rename search_for replace_with <files>
>>>
>>> while the perl-script syntax is
>>>
>>> rename 's/search_for/replace_with/' <files>
>>
>> thanks for the latter sed syntax - good to know on Debian, IINM ...
>
> I wonder if that version is actually prename ('dnf install prename')
> under a different name, which would be nicely ironic ...
prename! Yes, thanks.
It's also rejigged my memory that previous versions of Debian had
"prename". It was provided by "perl" itself and it was the same as
Fedora's "prename". There was an alternatives-created "rename" symlink
to it.
Looking at the control and spec files,
Fedora's rename comes from
http://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename-1.9/bin/rename.PL
Debian's rename comes from
http://search.cpan.org/~rmbarker/File-Rename-0.20/lib/File/Rename.pm
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