From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Haelwenn \(lanodan\) Monnier"
<contact-BazVNOuc66DwXD0AkxfrAg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename: change "expression" to "original"
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:15:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1038hjr$5nr$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20250621232642.17613-2-contact@hacktivis.me
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"?)
--
Nuno Silva
Who hopes the Cc works properly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-22 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-21 23:26 [PATCH] rename: change "expression" to "original" Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
2025-06-22 9:15 ` Nuno Silva [this message]
2025-06-22 9:49 ` Dirk Gouders
2025-06-22 10:36 ` Dirk Gouders
2025-06-22 15:51 ` Benno Schulenberg
2025-06-30 12:08 ` Karel Zak
2025-07-01 16:03 ` Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
[not found] ` <87cyawp26b.fsf@ist.utl.pt>
2025-06-22 21:34 ` Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
2025-07-01 16:01 ` [PATCH v2] rename: change "expression" to "substring" Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
2025-07-02 8:03 ` Karel Zak
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