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The most pertinent issues are:

(1) split has no default second argument, so the $_ needs to be explicit.

(1) at the least under unix, you could get an error trying to rename . and .. (the current and parent directories). To avoid that, replace the readdir with 

grep !/^\./, readdir

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(2) but, just in case there are yet more files in the directory that you don't want to rename, you might consider instead: 
grep /^\d+\.gif/, readdir

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(3) the '.' operator in the arguments to rename will not produce a literal '.' as has already been hinted at.

Update:

(4) it is possible but suspicious that you expect to have a mount point at '/temp_gif' ... should this not be './temp_gif'?

(5) if so, then when that is corrected, the fix suggested by others of putting the relative or full path in front of the arguments to rename will become able to function.

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In reply to Re: rename files by SimonClinch
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