The "rename" package does not install the rename(2) script?
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 01:27:32 UTC
freebsd-questions: I have a FreeBSD machine on my SOHO network: 2024-12-26 17:23:08 toor@f5 ~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -a 13.4-RELEASE-p1 13.4-RELEASE-p1 13.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD f5.tracy.holgerdanske.com 13.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 I wanted to install the "rename" Perl script: 2024-12-26 17:26:09 toor@f5 ~ # pkg search rename brename-2.14.0_7 Tool for batch renaming files/directories via regular expressions gprename-2.7_1,1 Perl script for renaming multiple files krename-5.0.2_4 Powerful batch file renamer for KDE linrename-2.25.2_1 Rename multiple files using substitution p5-Devel-Caller-IgnoreNamespaces-1.1 Make available a magic caller which can ignore namespaces p5-File-Rename-2.01 Rename multiple files rename-1.99.2_1 Rename multiple files using regular expressions renameutils-0.12.0_3 Rename files faster and more easily I installed the "rename" package (via a utility shell script): 2024-12-26 17:16:56 toor@f5 /var/local/image/f5 # install-packages -y + hostname -f + host=f5.tracy.holgerdanske.com + perl -e 'exit($ENV{OSTYPE} =~ /freebsd/ ? 0 : 1)' + cmd=pkg + cat /root/f5.tracy.holgerdanske.com/packages + xargs pkg install -y Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: rename: 1.99.2_1 Number of packages to be installed: 1 23 KiB to be downloaded. [1/1] Fetching rename-1.99.2_1.pkg: 100% 23 KiB 23.6kB/s 00:01 Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) [1/1] Installing rename-1.99.2_1... [1/1] Extracting rename-1.99.2_1: 100% ===== Message from rename-1.99.2_1: -- ===> NOTICE: The rename port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla More information about port maintainership is available at: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing 2024-12-26 17:17:56 toor@f5 /var/local/image/f5 # My shell is unable to find the rename(2) binary: 2024-12-26 17:23:05 toor@f5 ~ # rename -bash: rename: command not found 2024-12-26 17:23:06 toor@f5 ~ # which rename 2024-12-26 17:23:20 toor@f5 ~ # echo $PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin 2024-12-26 17:24:24 toor@f5 ~ # find -x / -name rename /usr/tests/sys/pjdfstest/rename Comments or suggestions? David