Renaming a File with Perl's RENAME Function

To rename the file city.txt to citynames.txt

rename("city.txt", "citynames.txt");

You can move the file as well by specifying the path, but BE CAREFUL. A file with the same name where you are moving to, will be overwritten.

rename("city.txt", "citydata/citynames.txt");

The above would move city.txt to directory citydata as it renamed to citynames.txt


Copy and Paste Perl Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

rename("city.txt", "citynames.txt") || print "Don't have permission to rename.<br><br>";

print "Done";

exit;

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