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in thread rename files

by stating the file location i have a new error "Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+)". with relation to the $number_replace variable? i am running the script from a command line the directory and files are now chmod 777 (wromg i know) and the script is chmod a+x

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Re^5: rename files
by davorg (Chancellor) on Aug 08, 2005 at 14:12 UTC

    Then it looks like you're doing things in the wrong order. It should be something like this:

    my $dir = '/temp_gif';
opendir (DH, $dir) or die "unable $!";

foreach (readdir DH) {
  my ($number) = split (/\./);
  print "$number\n";
  $number += 338;

  rename ("$dir/$_", "$dir/$number.GIF") or die $!;
}

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Re^5: rename files
by talexb (Chancellor) on Aug 08, 2005 at 14:09 UTC
      by stating the file location i have a new error "Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+)". with relation to the $number_replace variable?

    Probably because the file name that's come up is no longer a numeric -- it's x.gif or something.

    You're probably better off using a regexp to skip files that don't have numeric 'name'.

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