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/ File::Rename

NAME

File::Rename - Perl extension for renaming multiple files

SYNOPSIS

use File::Rename qw(rename);          # hide CORE::rename
rename \@ARGV, sub { s/\.pl\z/.pm/ }, 1;

use File::Rename;
File::Rename::rename \@ARGV, '$_ = lc';

use File::Rename qw(:config no_require_order);

DESCRIPTION

USE OPTIONS

Parameters to use File::Rename consists of functions to be imported and configuration options.

The only exported function is rename(). The configuation options are preceded by :config, and are passed to File::Rename::Options.

FUNCTIONS

rename( FILES, CODE [, VERBOSE])

rename FILES using CODE, if FILES is empty read list of files from stdin

rename_files( CODE, VERBOSE, FILES)

rename FILES using CODE

rename_list( CODE, VERBOSE, HANDLE [, FILENAME])

rename a list of file read from HANDLE, using CODE

OPTIONS

FILES

List of files to be renamed, for rename must be an ARRAY reference

CODE

Subroutine to change file names, for rename can be a string, otherwise it is a code reference

VERBOSE

Flag for printing names of files successfully renamed, optional for rename

HANDLE

Filehandle to read file names to be renames

FILENAME (Optional)

Name of file that HANDLE reads from

HASH

Either CODE or VERBOSE can be a HASH of options.

If CODE is a HASH, VERBOSE is ignored and CODE is supplied by the _code key.

Other options are

verbose

As VERBOSE above, provided by -v.

input_null

Input separator \0 when reading file names from stdin.

no_action

Print names of files to be renamed, but do not rename (i.e. take no action), provided by -n.

over_write

Allow files to be over-written by the renaming, provided by -f.

filename_only

Only apply renaming to the filename component of the path, provided by -d.

show_help

Print help, provided by -h.

show_manual

Print manual page, provided by -m.

show_version

Print version number, provided by -V.

unicode_strings

Enable unicode_strings feature, provided by -u.

encoding

Encoding for filenames, provided by -u.

EXPORT

rename

ENVIRONMENT

No environment variables are used.

SEE ALSO

mv(1), perl(1), rename(1)

AUTHOR

Robin Barker <RMBarker@cpan.org>

Acknowledgements

Based on code from Larry Wall.

Options -e, -f, -n suggested by more recent code written by Aristotle Pagaltzis.

DIAGNOSTICS

Errors from the code argument are not trapped.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 by Robin Barker

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.