Combine the advice from jesuashok with File::Copy and you should have a working, perl only, portable solution: 

$ touch ABC\ 435535.doc
$ touch DEF\ 985535.doc
$ touch GHI\ 125535.doc
$ ls
632437.pl  ABC 435535.doc  DEF 985535.doc  GHI 125535.doc
$ perl -l 632437.pl
$ ls
125535.doc  435535.doc  632437.pl  985535.doc
$ cat 632437.pl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Copy;

while(<DATA>) {
  my $from = $_;
  chomp $from;
  (my $to = $from) =~ s/.* //g;
  move($from, $to) or die(qq{failed to move $from -> $to});
}

__DATA__
ABC 435535.doc
DEF 985535.doc
GHI 125535.doc

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Andreas

In reply to Re: Simple Perl file rename by andreas1234567
in thread Simple Perl file rename by Anonymous Monk

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