Thanks for the suggestion; however my files were not renamed: My code is now:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $h="testapp01";
my $dirname="/home/wasbatsrv/tmp/testbak";
my $uid="wasbatsrv";
my @remote_files= qx(ssh $uid\@$h 'find $dirname');
# Munge filenames to commands:
my @commands= map { sprintf "mv -i '%s' '%s.bak'",  quotemeta($_), quo
+temeta($_) } @remote_files;
# Send list of commands to the remote side:
# First, a dry-run instead of actually doing that:
my $remote= \*STDOUT;
# Use this to actually do the remote execution:
open $remote, "| ssh -q $uid\@$h";
print { $remote } join "\n", @commands;

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But the files are not renamed and this is the output:

 Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal
+.
mv: cannot stat `\\/home\\/wasbatsrv\\/tmp\\/testbak\\\n': No such fil
+e or directory
mv: cannot stat `\\/home\\/wasbatsrv\\/tmp\\/testbak\\/testbakr\\\n': 
+No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `\\/home\\/wasbatsrv\\/tmp\\/testbak\\/testbakr\\/thre
+e\\.properties\\\n': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `\\/home\\/wasbatsrv\\/tmp\\/testbak\\/testbakr\\/four
+\\.properties\\\n': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `\\/home\\/wasbatsrv\\/tmp\\/testbak\\/two\\.propertie
+s\\\n': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `\\/home\\/wasbatsrv\\/tmp\\/testbak\\/one\\.propertie
+s\\\n': No such file or directory

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Here is the directory listing:

[wasbatsrv@testapp01 testbak]$ ls
one.properties  testbakr  two.properties

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In reply to Re^2: Rename all files on remote server to *.bak recursively by nancylt723
in thread Rename all files on remote server to *.bak recursively by nancylt723

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