Reference: rename (Perl in a Nutshell)

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rename oldname, newname

Changes the name of a file from oldname to newname. It returns 1 for success, 0 otherwise (and puts the error code into $!). It will not work across filesystem boundaries. If there is already a file named newname, it will be destroyed.

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