How To Install prename on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prename
on Fedora 34.
What is prename
Prename renames the file names supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The argument is a Perl expression which is expected to modify the $_ string for at least some of the file names specified.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install prename
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install prename.
Install prename on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install prename
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install prename
Install prename on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install prename
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install prename
How To Uninstall prename on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the prename
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove prename
prename Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/prename
/usr/share/licenses/prename
/usr/share/licenses/prename/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/prename.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prename
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.