How To Install ren on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ren on Fedora 34.
What is ren
Whereas mv can rename (as opposed to move) only one file at a time, ren can rename many files according to search and replacement patterns, ala VMS and MS-DOS (but better). ren checks for replacement name collisions and handles rename chains (1 goes to 2 goes to 3 etc.) gracefully.
We can use yum or dnf to install ren on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ren.
Install ren 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 ren using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ren
Install ren 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 ren using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ren
How To Uninstall ren on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ren package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ren
ren Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ren
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/a009e250671dda13767c4f68b1a49ead7bb857
/usr/share/doc/ren
/usr/share/doc/ren/README
/usr/share/man/man1/ren.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ren on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
