#!/arch/unix/bin/perl #rename.pl #1.1 # #(c)Josh Abraham #Decemeber 1, 2004 #script that renames all the given files with a given extension #to another extension # touched up by Andrew Medico use strict; use warnings; use File::Copy; my $location; my $oldext; my $newext; if (@ARGV == 2 or @ARGV == 3) { $oldext = $ARGV[0]; $newext = $ARGV[1]; $location = defined $ARGV[2] ? $ARGV : "./"; } elsif (@ARGV == 0) { print "Please enter the location: "; $location = ; chomp($location); print "Please enter the old extension: "; $oldext = ; chomp($oldext); print "Enter new extension: "; $newext = ; chomp($newext); } else { die "Usage: $0 [oldext newext [directory]]\n"; } opendir(DIR, $location); for (readdir(DIR)) { if (/$oldext$/) { my $new = $_; $new =~ s/$oldext$/$newext/; warn "Renaming file $_ to $new \n"; if (! -e $new){ move ($_, $new); } else{ warn "File $new already exists "; next; } } closedir(DIR);