File::Rename provides an implementation of Larry Wall's eg/rename command. All I have done is added some error checking and (more recently) added the File/Rename.pm module. An earlier version of the script is out in the Internet and is included with some linuxes, and the original eg/rename is not included in the Perl distribution, so I have put this up on CPAN.
For Windows, the script is called file-rename to avoid clashes with existing rename command.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
or if you have Module::Build
perl Build.PL
perl Build
perl Build test
perl Build install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries: File::Basename File::Path File::Spec Getopt::Long (all included with Perl).
Testing requires File::Temp and Test::More which are available with perl 5.6.0. I have successfully installed those modules for perl 5.005_05 and tested this module.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 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.