rename appears useless in Ubuntu

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> Now that the mandatory snark is out of the way
> for reasons that are way beyond my mortal understanding, the maintainers
> of Debian (and by extension, Ubuntu) in their infinite wisdom, have
> decided to replace the standard rename program that's part of util-linux
> package in every distro, with a perl scrip normally called prename, even
> though the command syntax for prename is completely different.  (The
> standard rename is installed as "rename.ul")

I thought the man comment was supposed to be the snarky part?

FWIW, this rename is the one I'm used to.  I'm pretty sure it's been
the default on a few other distros I've used as well...

Brian



> If that were not enough, to add insult to injury, rename is actually a
> symlink that is meant to be part of the debian alternatives so you can
> choose which program it links too, but at least back in the Gutsy days,
> rename.ul wasn't configured as an option for rename.
>
> So run update-alternatives --config rename, and see if rename.ul is
> available as an option.  If it's not, then run this command to make it
> so: (should all be one line)
>
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/rename rename /usr/bin/rename.ul
> 50 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/rename.1.gz rename.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/rename.ul.1.gz
>
> And feel free to file a bug on launchpad if that long command is still
> necessary.
>
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