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in reply to Re^4: rename files
in thread rename files

Then it looks like you're doing things in the wrong order. It should be something like this:

my $dir = '/temp_gif'; opendir (DH, $dir) or die "unable $!"; foreach (readdir DH) { my ($number) = split (/\./); print "$number\n"; $number += 338; rename ("$dir/$_", "$dir/$number.GIF") or die $!; }
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