Hi, I'm very new to perl. I'm trying to substitute some characters in file names in some directory. Here is the code 
#!/bin/perl

#usage:
#C:\Perl>perl Replace_chars_of_files.pl "C:/Perl/"
use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Copy;

my $path = $ARGV[0];
die "You must supply a full directory path" unless (-e $path && -d $pa
+th);

my @dirs;

opendir(DIR, $path) || die "can't opendir $path: $!";
my @fileet = grep { -f "$path/$_" } readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

foreach my $file (@fileet) {
        $file =~ s/ä/ä/g;
        $file =~ s/ö/ö/g;
        move($file, "$path/$file");
}

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This renames and copies the file but only the name of the file, not what it contains. Would you provide some help here? I'm using Windows XP.

In reply to Renaming files in dir by larus

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