How to install perl rename on Alpine?

Question

I want to be able to use a regex to perform file renaming so rename from util-linux is not good while perl-rename (also call prename) could make it.

Unfortunately, I didn't find any "perl-rename" package in Alpine repository...

Answer 1

Like this (from testing repository):

apk add perl-file-rename --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/

Check https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/727288/12574

Usage:

file-rename --help

Answer 2

One workaround, would be to use sed and mv as replacement, e.g.:

for old in *.whl; do
    new=$(echo "$old" | sed -e "s/\(ortools-[0-9\.]\+\)/\1+musl/")
    mv -v -- "$old" "$new"
done