See also:

• Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice?
• Re^4: Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice? (atomic rename) (tye notes that Perl's rename function is atomic on both POSIX systems and Windows - more detail on Win32 rename can be found at Re^7: Read in hostfile, modify, output)
• Re-runnably editing a file in place
• Re^2: Private Utilities (mentions Aristotle's rename utility, an improvement on Larry's original rename script)
• CPAN module File::Replace by haukex and the node replied to: How does rename() work on read-only files? (2018)