At 2003-09-20T23:34:37Z, Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> writes: > oops that should be: > `mv "$file" "$newname"`; > So that files with spaces won't screw up. That won't work either. Suppose that $file contains a doublequote? If you're in Perl anyway, use: rename $file, $newname; which doesn't care about spaces or punctuation, and calls the appropriate libc functions directly rather than causing an expensive fork/exec. -- Kirk Strauser
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