Your file names have spaces in them. The DOS rename command sees
spaces and thinks you're sending it a *whole bunch* of arguments. You
have to put double-quotes around your arguments when you drop the DOS
command in backticks.
- - Martin
P.S. Please send ONLY PLAIN TEXT email to mailing lists.
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Preston
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 15:06
To: 'Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO';
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Subject: RE: renaming files in XP
my $old_name = "$file_path\\Track No$jc$mp";
my $new_name = "$file_path\\$_";
my $p = `rename $old_name $new_name`;
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