I don't use perl much. I tried to use it to rename some files and I can't get the rename function to work. The problem seems to be file permissions, but even if I use sudo, or chmod the permissions to 755, it still won't work. Does this have something to do with OSX and Darwin? I am running 10.6.2 on an Intel Macbook.

My code (the directory "kennel" contains two files: cat1, cat2):

opendir(DIR,"kennel");
while ($file = readdir(DIR)) {
    next unless $file =~ /cat/;
    my $newfile = $file;
    $newfile =~ s/cat/dog/;
    rename($file, $newfile) || print "Don't have permission to rename.
+\n";
}

closedir(DIR);

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When run, this code prints the error message (i.e. does not rename files)

In reply to rename doesn't work on OSX? by mmfuller

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