These days I’ve been busy redoing a script in Perl that I’ve been using for more than ten years: rnm, which renames files (and directories) with Unicode support in both Windows and linux. In brief, it uses Win32::OLE Perl module to correctly manage files with Unicode chars in Windows. The problem arises when I want … Continue reading
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Windows dir command, Unicode file names and Perl
The other day I was trying to use some old Perl script on Windows 7. In this case I used ActiveState Perl for Windows 5.14.2 (x64). The script extracts the contents of a directory using the ms-dos command line “dir”, and use each line to make its calculations. It’s true, it should better use opendir … Continue reading