Hi Anon
Here's another approach
#!perl -sl
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';
my $PATH = "c:/code/test";
my $processed_hash_ref;
chdir $PATH; # filetests using relative path
opendir DH, "." or die "Couldn't open directory $PATH: $!";
while ($_ = readdir (DH)) {
next unless -f $_
&& m/^\d_\d{4}_\d\d?_\d\d?_\d\d?_\d\d?_\d\d?_table/i;
my $fname = join ('_', (split /_/)[ 7..11 ]);
# already seen a more recent file with the name we're
# planning to use? skip current file
next if defined $processed_hash_ref->{$fname} &&
$processed_hash_ref->{$fname}->{AGE} < -M _;
# file safe to be renamed... for now
$processed_hash_ref->{$fname}->{OLDNAME} = $_;
$processed_hash_ref->{$fname}->{AGE} = -M _;
}
closedir DH;
# now proceed to rename items
map {
print "[!] rename $processed_hash_ref->{$_}->{OLDNAME} to $_";
rename $processed_hash_ref->{$_}->{OLDNAME}, $_;
} keys %$processed_hash_ref;
Cheers
Shadow