use warnings;
use File::Copy;
use File::Find;

find(\&rename_txts, ".");
#Pfade ... find(\&rename_txts, "./txt2/");

sub rename_txts {
    if (/\.*$/) {
        my $new_name = $_;
        $new_name =~ y/ /-/;
        #Gives us the changed names:
        print "$File::Find::name to $new_name\n";
        
        print "$_ \n";
        
    #Try to exclude "." the current directory this is not working ... 
+   
    elsif ($_ ne ".") {
        move $_, $new_name;
    }
    }
}

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The Elsif is not working i try to exclude the working directory "." from copying.
it is ok that the code is working "down" the directory tree that is a "feature"
Thx for any help

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