momo33:

You'll probably have to cache the renames, and do them after you've traversed the directory tree since Windows isn't going to want to let you rename a directory when a process is using it. Something like this:

my @renames;
...
sub wanted {
   ...
   push @renames, [ $old_name, $new_name ];
   ...
}
...
find(...);
for (@renames) {
   move $$_[0], $$_[1];
}

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You may be able to do it using the no_chdir option on File::Find, but I don't know. (File::Find may have the directory open anyway as part of how it works.)

...roboticus

Update: Fixed missing code tag.

In reply to Re: renaming subdirectories on MS Windows by roboticus
in thread renaming subdirectories on MS Windows by momo33

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