10 Oct
2020
10 Oct
'20
12:21 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, at 23:45, John Cowan wrote:
Not always, though. Some distros package GNU rename
<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html> instead, which
can only convert a fixed string to another fixed string.
This rename utility is actually part of util-linux [a mixed bag of utilities that were
developed early on by linux kernel developers to fill in the gaps of what GNU didn't
provide], not GNU.
[I believe the other rename command is actually part of perl, and you can execute
arbitrary perl code, not just a regex substitution]