Sweeper

Is it possible to create a perl program to

1. continuously sweep a named directory for files with a certain extension and rename them with another extension?

Example: continuously sweep \myfiles for files with the extension of .txt and rename them with the extension of .doc

I have this need but I am thinking that it needs to be some type of continuous sweeper or continuous loop (while...)

This is for both a Unix/Linux system or Windows.

Thanks in advance.

-Roger

Yes it is possible.

So, now you should start working on writing the script and when you get stuck, post your code and a specific question.

As a simple starting point, you could do something like this:




You just have to write the rename_files() function, which needs to iterate over the filenames and rename them one by one.