From: "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@hacktivis.me>
To: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename: change "expression" to "original"
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:34:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aFh298w6_1gLVs3a@cloudsdale.the-delta.net.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyawp26b.fsf@ist.utl.pt>
[2025-06-22 10:23:12+0100] Nuno Silva:
>(Resending via mail only because the mailing list post with Cc hit an
>issue with Gmane, but was successfully delivered to the list.)
Ack, CC'd back the mailing-list so trail isn't lost
>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"?)
I know FreeBSD rename(1) is the perl one, and it seems like Debian
changed perl rename from `rename` to `file-rename` in bookworm:
Before: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/rename
After: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/rename
And has util-linux rename as `rename.ul`: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/util-linux/filelist
Best regards
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-22 21:34 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
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 [this message]
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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