I'm trying to use File::Find module to rename recursively certain chars in folder names in my directory tree. The code looks like this 
#!/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use File::Find;
use File::Copy;

my $path = $ARGV[0];
my $from = $ARGV[1];
my $to = $ARGV[2];

die "You must supply a full directory path" unless (-e $path && -d $pa
+th);

find(\&renamedir, "$path");

sub renamedir {
    next if -f $_;
    next if /^\./;
        
    my $new_name = $_;
    $new_name    =~ s/$from/$to/g;
    chdir($File::Find::dir);
    move($_, $new_name) or die $!;
}

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When I e.g. call this script like this to convert a string "John" to "Matt" 
C:\>Replace.pl "C:/Temp/" John Matt

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I get an error saying that "Can't cd to (C:/Temp/) John : No such file or directory. So, it seems that the problem is that the script changes the folder name before it tries to cd into it. How could I tackle this problem? Thanks!

In reply to File::Find: Problem with renaming folders recursively by larus

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