fixdir('d'); sub fixdir { my $dir = shift; opendir my $DH, $dir or die "$dir: $!"; while (my $f = readdir $DH) { next if grep $_ eq $f, qw/. ../; (my $new = $f) =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9_.]/_/g; die "$f: $new already exists.\n" if -e "$dir/$new" and $new ne $f; print STDERR "Renaming: $f -> $new\n"; rename "$dir/$f", "$dir/$new"; fixdir("$dir/$new") if -d "$dir/$new"; } }