Greetings Monks:

I am attempting to rename all files in a directory based on a regex match of a compund file name.I have followed the example of The Perl Cookbook 9.9

The code as follows generates the following error mesage: 
Could not rename:Device or resource busy at rename line 22.

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Any insight into the nature of this error would be appreciated. 
#! /usr/bin/perl


$dir="/home/yehuda/img/jpg/";
opendir(DH,$dir)or die "FOO BAR! $!\n";
while (defined ($img=readdir DH)){

        if ($img=~m/^(.*)\.(.*)\.(.*)/g){$success=1};
                if ($sucess==1){
                $newname="$1.$3";
                }else{
                print "$img didn't match\n";
                }

push @names,$img if $sucess==1;
push @newnames,$newname if $sucess=1;
}
closedir DH;

foreach $name(@names){
$i=$i+1 ;
$newname_=$newnames[$i-1];
$path="$dir/$name";
$target="$dir$newname_";
rename ($path,$target) or die "Could not rename:$!";
print "  $path   is now $target \n";
;

}

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In reply to Rename All Files In a Directory by dReKurCe

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