I am trying to rename files using "rename", but I guess I want the "perl version" of rename that does regex. To do this, I was trying to use cpan to install it, however cpan throws a YAML error, and so based on what I was reading I will need to install "make" which I am told I need to install "build-essential".

 

This is what's supposed to work for Ubunutu, but it's probably different for unRAID:

 

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Ideas?

Docker container or VM for perl and do all your work in there?

I was just trying to do it on the OS itself. Is that wrong?

No, but substantially more complex and will be wiped out upon any reboot.

What approach would you recommend?

Just used a Windows VM with Powershell to do what I needed