Re: [PATCH] rename: change "expression" to "original"

[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