Re: How to do a recursive rename ?

you loop on the files matched by the glob.
So for each filename the s/// calculates the new filename $new

for ( glob "*.abc" ) {
  ($new = $_) =~ s/\.abc$/.edf/; 
   rename $_, $new or warn "can't rename '$old' to '$new'";
}
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RE: Re: How to do a recursive rename ? by Adam (Vicar) on Sep 12, 2000 at 04:09 UTC
Oh, I see what you're doing now. I kind of glanced at it and said, "but why would he bind $_ to a pattern match?"... he he, because you aren't. By the way, you can edit your old posts to add updates and the like (or to fix mistakes like your $old) by going to the node itself.	[reply]