From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T05:12:09+09:00
Subject: How to re-name a file  from Ruby script

Hi all,

I have a folder containing many files with format
LIPID5-2.001
LIPID5-2.002
...
LIPID5-2.200

I want to change all of them into
LIPID5-3.001
LIPID5-3.002
...
LIPID5-3.200

I write a script as follows. Based on the screen output the filename is
changed. But I go to the same folder and find the original file
LIPID5-2.001 is still there and there is no file called LIPID5-3.001.
Any comments?

Thanks,

Li

##
path='C:\Ruby\self'

Dir.entries(path).each do |filename|

 if filename=~/(LIPID5-2)(\.\w+)/i
   p filename.gsub!(/LIPID5-2/,'LIPID5-3')
 end

end

##output

>ruby dir9.rb
"LIPID5-3.001"
>Exit code: 0

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