File renaming and removal to a subdirectory

Thanks for your offer.
At this stage I am a newby ( raw initiate) who does not know where to start, but is ploughing his way through a text and doing basic tutorial exercises.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Joe, Townsville

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Re:{3} File renaming and removal to a subdirectory by jeroenes (Priest) on Jul 11, 2001 at 17:22 UTC
When I started with perl, I greatly enjoyed 'Learning Perl' from Randall L. Schwartz aka merlyn. Great book for the first steps in perl. There are two things that you need to do here. First, create a list of files you want to move around. That's done by globbing: `@list = <.puz>`. Than you'll have to rename that file to add the 'A' and move it at the same time, the first part is done by regexes, see perlre: `s/(\.puz)$/A$1/;` and the second by concatenation: `$name= 'subdir/' . $name`. You'll have to rename every file, so loop over your list with for: `for my $new ( <.puz> ){ my $old = $new; $new =~ s/(\.puz)$/A$1/; $new = 'subdir/' . $new; rename $old, $new; }` [download] Updated	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re:{3} File renaming and removal to a subdirectory
by jeroenes (Priest) on Jul 11, 2001 at 17:22 UTC

merlyn

There are two things that you need to do here. First, create a list of files you want to move around. That's done by globbing: @list = <*.puz>.

Than you'll have to rename that file to add the 'A' and move it at the same time, the first part is done by regexes, see perlre: s/(\.puz)$/A$1/; and the second by concatenation: $name= 'subdir/' . $name.

You'll have to rename every file, so loop over your list with for:

for my $new ( <*.puz> ){
  my $old = $new;
  $new =~ s/(\.puz)$/A$1/;
  $new = 'subdir/' . $new;
  rename $old, $new;
}
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