in reply to Renaming all files in a directory
If you don't want to use Perl's glob, use the shell's globbing instead of parsing the output of ls.
perl -we 'rename $_, "image" . $counter++ . ".jpg" for @ARGV' *
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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