Okay, I'll give you a few pointers, but first, please use a more descriptive subject line and start a new message when you start a new thread.
The Perl documentation is found by running perldoc. To find the answers to your questions, try checking out: perldoc -f stat perldoc -q extern perldoc -f rename That should get you started -----Original Message----- From: Ajey Kulkarni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 3:21 AM To: drieux Cc: Perl Perl Subject: some doubt hi, How can i rename a file and check the size of file using perl? Also is there a way to call unix commands/system calls from perl?(Say i want to fstat() on a file and grab the stat struct results). Is there any way?? TIA -Ajey