How can i change the file extension?

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Re: How can i change the file extension? by roboticus (Chancellor) on Sep 23, 2012 at 19:19 UTC
littlemonk: Read `perldoc -f rename`. You'll actually want to review `perldoc perlfunc` to see perls built-in functions for a wide variety of tasks. ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How can i change the file extension? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 23, 2012 at 19:17 UTC
Take a look at the 'rename' function (perldoc -f rename). `foreach my $file (glob '/path/*.txt') { (my $new_file = $file) =~ s{txt\z}{html}; rename $file => $new_file; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How can i change the file extension? by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Sep 23, 2012 at 22:12 UTC
To change the file extension is easy, either renaming or i.e: `use File::Copy; copy("text.txt","text.html")` But note that this is not the same as to change the type of file. So you probably want instead to convert your files to html files, and this is a different problem. Take a look to the module TextToHTML If you use GNU the file extension is not really relevant, you could have a jpg named file.txt or file.pdf and will be perfectly recognised as image	[reply] [d/l]