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copied!<p>Don't blame Windows for your problems. Linux is much more lax, and the only character it prohibits from its file names is NUL.</p> <p>It isn't clear exactly what you are asking. Did you publish your code for a critique, or are you having problems with it?</p> <p>As for the specific questions you asked,</p> <ul> <li><p><em>What other characters besides spaces, parenthesis should be translated?</em></p> <p>Windows allows any character in its filenames except for control characters from 0x00 to 0x1F and any of <pre>< > \ / * ? |</pre></p> <p><code>DEL</code> at 0x7F is fine.</p> <p>Within the ASCII set, that leaves <pre>! # $ % & ' ( ) + , - . : ; = @ [ ] ^ _ ` { } ~ </pre></p> <p>The set of characters you need to translate depends on your reason for doing this. You may want to start by excluding non-ASCII characters, so your code should read something like</p> <p><code>$name2 =~ tr/\x21-\x7E/-/c</code></p> <p>which will change all non-ASCII characters, spaces and DEL to hyphens. Then you need to go ahead and fix all the ASCII characters that you consider <em>undersirable</em>.</p></li> <li><p><em>What other file attributes (besides file type (file/dir) and permissions) should be checked?</em></p> <p>The answer to this has to be <em>according to your purpose</em>. If you are referring only to whether renaming a file or directory as required is <em>possible</em>, then I suggest that you just let <code>rename</code> itself tell you whether it succeeded. It will return a <em>false</em> value if the operation failed, and the reason will be in <code>$!</code>.</p></li> <li><p><em>Does Perl offer a pushd/popd equivalent, or is chdir a reasonable solution to traversing the directory tree?</em></p> <p>If you want to work with that idiom, then you should take a look at <a href="https://metacpan.org/module/File%3a%3apushd" rel="nofollow"><code>File::pushd</code></a>, which allows you to temporarily <code>chdir</code> to a new location. A <code>popd</code> is done implicitly at the end of the enclosing block.</p></li> </ul> <p>I hope this helps. If you have any other specific questions then please make them known by editing your original post.</p>

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