And this is my FINAL results. I tested it on TWO LARGE folders and it worked great. And YES, I backed up first. :-)
I thank you Sooooooooo Much
-Regards -Ray
#!/usr/bin/perl
# use POSIX qw/strftime/;
# use strict;
# use warnings;
# use diagnostics;
sub fixdir {
my $dir = shift;
opendir my $DH, $dir or die "Not Found....$dir: $!";
while (my $f = readdir $DH) {
next if grep $_ eq $f, qw/. ../;
fixdir("$dir/$f") if -d "$dir/$f";
(my $new = $f) =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9_.]/_/g;
if ($new eq $f) { next; }
while ( -e "$dir/$new") { $new .= "1"; }
print STDERR "Renaming: $f -> $new\n";
rename "$dir/$f", "$dir/$new";
}
}
die "No command line arguments given!" unless @ARGV;
my $nargs = @ARGV;
print "Number of command line arguments is $nargs\n";
my $Do_Dir = $ARGV[0];
# print("ARG=", "$Do_Dir", "<<<<<<\n");
if (!$Do_Dir ) {
print ("No Folder Name given!\n");
exit; }
print( "The Folder Name is: ", "$Do_Dir", "\n" );
fixdir("$Do_Dir");
print "Done...\n"