#!/usr/bin/perl # Syntax : /../perl /.../PS_file_Rename.pl -s /..../Source_directory -f filename.xls # .. -> path of Perl.exe # ... -> path of the script PS_file_Rename.pl # -s option - Source_Folder # -f option - Filename to use for renaming use Getopt::Std; use Data::Dumper; use POSIX qw(strftime); use vars qw($opt_s $opt_f); getopts('s:f:'); $ff="$opt_s"."\\"."$opt_f"; #if the file name already exists delete it if (-e $ff) { unlink($ff) or warn scalar localtime(time()), " WARN Can't delete $ff : $!"; } my $path = $opt_s."\\*.*"; $path =~ s|\\|/|g; #find the newest file my $newestfile = (sort{(stat $b)[10] <=> (stat $a)[10]}glob $path)[0]; #rename the newest file to the name passed rename($newestfile,$ff) or warn scalar localtime(time()), " WARN Can't rename $newestfile : $!"; @files = glob $opt_s."\\*.*"; foreach my $file (@files) { if($file ne $ff) { unlink($file) or warn scalar localtime(time()), " WARN Can't delete ".$opt_s."\\".$file." : $!"; } }