I got stock on this problem. I am trying to move emails from new to cur folder, I check the content of directory first and after that try to move it: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $newDir = "/home/iphone/Maildir/new";
my $curDir =  "/home/iphone/MailDir/cur";

opendir(DIR, "$newDir");
my @FILES= readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;
foreach (@FILES) {
                    my $newFile="$currentDir"."\/".$file;
                        my $curFile="$oldDir"."\/".$file;

 rename $newFile, $curFile;
}

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Well it does not work and I think the reason is the name of the file with periods, comas etc like: 1340717641.M913153P29268.krasowski,S=3001,W=3072:2,S. Any idea how to solve this ?? Thanks like always Robert

In reply to Usig file name without backslash escape by rkrasowski

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