On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:51 AM Michael Kjörling <michael@kjorling.se> wrote:

In Debian, that's https://packages.debian.org/stable/rename; I suspect
other systems with reasonably large package repositories also offer it
prepackaged.

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.



John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."