Perl modules and functions that will be useful for this are
File::Find (type perldoc File::Find at the command prompt)
substr (perldoc -f substr)
rindex (perldoc -f rindex)
rename (perldoc -f rename)
After you have read through these docs you will be able to figure out
the perl script yourself.

hth,
Sudarsan

krish wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a beginner in Perl and have a very trivial query. I have some .expect
> files in my directory structure which are spread all throughout. I want to
> convert these files (only expect files) to .expect.bak.  Please let me know
> as to how this can be done using Perl script. Even pointers to shell
> scripting will help.
> Thanks
> K.Srinivas
>
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