opendir( DIR, $dir ); my @files = grep( /$pattern/, readdir(DIR) ); closedir(DIR); chdir($dir); foreach my $file (@files) { if (($file=~ m/^Gkel_/) && (substr($file, -2) ne 'gz')) { my $result = `wc -l $file`; my ($count, $file_name) = split(' ',$result); $file1 = substr($file,5,50); $Orig_file1 = $file_name; $Count1 = $count; system(`mv $file $file1`); } }