Hi, I have a minimum knowledge in perl and trying to get my head around to do a script. I need to write a script that look for a file in a folder where modified/created date is today and and rename it by appending the current date at the end of the file name. Then copy it to a different location,

File Name format - "ABC DEF GHI 3648.html" - This file is generated everyday with a random number(3468).

Need to rename it to - "ABC_DEF_GHI_22112012.html" I have started with the below script, 

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;

# Specify the folder for file search

my $startFolder = "D:\\XXX\\XXX\\";

opendir (DIR, $startFolder) || die "Can't access $startFolder";
 
 # to search for the document
 
foreach my $file (readdir(DIR))
    {
    
    #Modified today and specify the file pattern
        next unless (-M $file <= 1 && $file =~ m/\ABC DEF GHI/);
    
    }

closedir(DIR);

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The next step is to rename the file as specified above and copy it to a new location. Please let me know the best way to do it. Thanks.

In reply to Search for a file created today and rename it by appending the current date and copy it to a different location by perlgb

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