Hi everyone!

I have to process a lot of filenames and directory names which may contain spaces: I want to change spaces with, lets say, _ symbol. I've googled for a solution; and I've found a rather ugly Bash string which however works fine.

I've decided to write a much more good-looking Perl script which would do the same thing. But the only code I was able to compose is the following code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;

my $dir = "/home/ivan/M1";

find(\&wanted, $dir);

sub wanted {
    my $file = $_; # storing unprocessed filename
    $_ =~ s/ /_/g; # replacing spaces with _
    rename "$File::Find::dir/$file", "$File::Find::dir/$_"; # renaming
+ files
}

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I've run it; first time I've run it, it returned an error like this:

Can't cd to (/home/ivan/M1/) Some Dirname With Spaces: no such file or
+ directory
 at ./1.pl line 16

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But it had processed all the filenames and changed spaces with _. I've run the script second time and it didn't return any mistake and all of my filenames and dirnames were processed.

My question is: what have I done wrong and how to improve this script? I'm a newbe in Perl and, to tell the truth, in Unix, so please don't blame me too hard :) . Thank you in advance.

In reply to File::Find and replacing spaces in filenames. by Kyshtynbai

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