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File::Rename(3) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | File::Rename(3) |
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¶
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.
2024-03-08 | perl v5.40.0 |