Rename TO argument can't be ""

I want a custom buttom to strip "-muxed" from files that MeGui makes. I thought I could do this:

rename PATTERN="-muxed" TO="" FINDREP

It doesn't work. I get error 183. 'Cannot create a file when the file already exists.'

There's a special way to do that:

Rename PATTERN="-muxed" TO="\~" FINDREP

That did it. Thanks!