If you're not moving the file between disks, there's no need to use a module. The built in rename will work just fine.

And I suspect your problems could be related that you don't give a full path for both arguments of move, but to just one. Maybe, instead of prepending "$path/" in front of the file name everywhere, you could chdir to $path first, and then you can use relative paths, i.e. just use the bare file basename.

A possible second reason for trouble is that the characters you're trying to change are not in Ascii. Under the hood, (western) Windows uses 2 character sets: CP1252, Microsoft's extension to Latin-1, for the GUI, and an old DOS compatible code page (4 hundred something?) for the console — and maybe for the filesystem, too. Just try to run a script like 

print "ä\n";

[download]
in the console, and you'll see what I mean. If that is indeed a problem, you'll have to find out the character code of the characters you're trying to change.

In reply to Re: Renaming files in dir by bart
in thread Renaming files in dir by larus

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