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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming File Names in a folder/Dir Post 302820153 by rajamadhavan on Wednesday 12th of June 2013 06:41:00 AM
Old 06-12-2013
try escaping the dot

Code:
 new=${i//\./_}

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test::folder

Test::Folder(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Test::Folder(3pm)

NAME

       Test::Folder - test folder attributes

SYNOPSIS

	 use Test::More ...;
	 use Test::Folder;

DESCRIPTION

       This modules provides a collection of test utilities for folder attributes.  Use it in combination with Test::More in your test programs.

FUNCTIONS

   folder_exists_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder exists, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_exists_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder does not exist, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_empty_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is empty (contains no files or subfolders), and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_empty_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not empty (contains any files or subfolders), and not ok otherwise.

   folder_readable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is readable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_readable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not readable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_writable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is writable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_writable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not writable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_executable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is executable, and not ok otherwise.

   folder_not_executable_ok(FOLDERNAME [, TESTNAME] )
       Ok if the folder is not executable, and not ok otherwise.

TO DO

       There are probably some more folder attributes that can be tested.  If you need them, please ask (or better yet, contribute code!).

AUTHOR

       Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, "mthurn at cpan.org", <http://tinyurl.com/nn67z>.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-dir at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Dir>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on
       your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

	 perldoc Test::Folder

       You can also look for information at:

       o   RT: CPAN's request tracker

	   <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-Dir>

       o   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

	   <http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-Dir>

       o   CPAN Ratings

	   <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-Dir>

       o   Search CPAN

	   <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Dir>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2011-02-20							 Test::Folder(3pm)
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