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This document describes version 0.001 of Acme::CPANModules::RenamingFiles (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModules-RenamingFiles), released on 2022-11-14.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This list will attempt to catalog Perl modules (and scripts) that can be used to
rename multiple files, often by letting you transform the filename using Perl
code or regex.

The granddaddy of all this is of course Larry's own script L<rename>, which
appeared as a dozen-line simple example at least as early as 1989 in C<eg/>
subdirectory of the Perl 3.0 source code (while regex itself was introduced just
a year earlier in Perl 2.0). Later in Perl 5.8 the examples subdirectory was
removed from the source code. Currently there are at least three evolutions from
this script on CPAN: L<rename> by Peder Stray (since 2000), L<File::Rename>
by Robin Barker (since 2005), and L<App::FileTools::BulkRename> by Stirling
Westrup (since 2010).

L<rename> by Peder Stray (you might have difficulty installing the archive
using CPAN client since it does not include a module) is based on Larry Wall's
C<rename> script and has grown to feature dry-run mode, backup, interactive