Re: [MacPerl] Rename Problem [Novice Question]

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

russell@cpp.critpath.org (Russell Johannesson)
>I know I must be missing something simple [...]

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>$dir='Macintosh HD:Sample Folder:';
>print "$dir\n";
>opendir(FOLDER,"$dir") || die "I could not open this folder:";
>@files=readdir(FOLDER);

Something simple indeed: The paths returned by readdir() are relative
to $dir, not to the current directory. Insert a chdir($dir) and your code
will work.

Matthias

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