[perl #64400] rename command on windows fails on files with ~ in them

On Thu Apr 02 12:49:00 2009, warren.l.dodge@tek.com wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from warren.l.dodge@tek.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.5.
> 
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> [Please enter your report here]
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> I found something that File::Copy doesn't work with properly. I am not
> sure if the problem is in perl or in the windows system.
> 
> I did these steps in a script
> 
> # make sure the remote file is totally on the system before making the
> # real filename appear.
> copy \\host\dir\dir\ALTERA~1.VHD     \dir\dir\ALTERA~1.VHD_new
> rename     \dir\dir\ALTERA~1.VHD_new \dir\dir\ALTERA~1.VHD
> 
> The rename does not happen for some reason. I would suspect it is the
> underlaying OS since the ~ stuff is special. I just wanted you to
> verify.
> 
> The File::Copy command also fails to do a copy rather then a rename.
> 
> 
> I recoded to use new_ALTERA~1.VHD instead and it all works ok.


The peculiarities of the Perl 5 'rename' function are documented in
perlfunc.

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perldoc -f rename
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Have you tried some of the suggestions therein, or read some of the
references on that page?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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• [perl #64400] rename command on windows fails on files with ~ in them by James E Keenan via RT