Re: How can I opendir, replace all files containing a space with .?

Hmm. Be careful with this script (once corrected) - if you have two files "legalise cannabis" and "legalise.cannabis", the first file will be renamed on top of the second one!

I'd change the middle of your loop to:

if (-e $newfile) {
    print STDERR ("Warning: $filename would "
                  ."clobber $newfile, skipping\n");
} else {
    rename($filename, $newfile);
}
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