The glob function will exclude dotfiles for you. It would be a good idea to test that each filename is a regular file, and is readable and writable to you. There is a handy set of run flags in perl for sed-like operations like this, so I'll show how to call up a second perl process to do the work, 

my $dir = "/perl/bin/ThisDirectoryHere";
my @files = grep { -f and -r _ and -w _} glob "$dir/*";
system '/usr/bin/perl', '-pi', '-e', 's/oldword/newword/gi', @files
    and die $?;

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That omits your change counting. The odd looking error handling in system...; is because of the inverted logic of its return value.

The alternative is to set up a loop on @files as you have, opening each to read and a new file to write. Read, substitute, write, and when done, rename the new file to the old name. File locking (flock) may be advisable.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Changing data in one directory by Zaxo
in thread Changing data in one directory by Anonymous Monk

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