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i wanted to write a perl script such that it can search and move all the .plx extension based file in the system to another location say(/usr/temp/dump) and the rename there .plx extension to .opx
i have tried writing it but with no success
i know that i can rename using the following command
rename 's/new$/old/' mah*.new
Mar 24 '09 #1
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