Dear all My name is Max, I am just a beginner in the world of Perl and so I apologize if my question, that seems to me so hard that I can get through by myself, is indeed silly. I got a dir plenty of files like that:

GridSquare_0000000077_FoilHole_0000000001_Data_0000000002_20120315_103721.jpg GridSquare_0000000077_FoilHole_0000000001_Data_0000000002_20120315_103721.xml

The number of this files are not sequential I would like to rename this file in a more handy way as 1.jpg and 1.xml, 2.jpg 2.xml up to the last one. In the position number 498 and 500 of the file *xml there are two numbers. I would like also to create a directory with this two numbers (something as 15 or 20) and move in this directory the corresponding files. So if th20120315_103721.xml has in position 498 and 500 the numbers 1 and 5 I would like to move this file and corresponding jpeg in the dir 15 and so on. I started step by step. First with a script that should have modified the name but indeed remove the files ! 

<
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
##
##
use strict ;
my $dir = 'ParticleAcquisitionDataImages/';
my @fileList = glob "${dir}*jmg*";
foreach   (@fileList) {
    next if -d;
        my $oldname = $_;
#       $_=substr($_, 0, 1, '');
#                       s/.//;
s/^.(.*).$/$1/;
                rename $oldname, $_  or
                        $_ = $oldname,
                                warn $_, ' not renamed: ', 
$!;

                                }

close
>

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Thank you in advance Max

In reply to Renaming files in a directory in sequence by Max79

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