I have a file in a different folder I want to rename in perl, I was looking at a solution earlier that showed something like this:

for (<backup.rar>) {
 my $file = $_;
 my $new = $_ 'backup'. @test .'.rar';
 rename $file, $new or die "Error, can not rename $file as $new: $!";
}

however backup.rar is in a different folder, I did try putting "C:\backup\backup.rar" in the <> above, however I got the same error.

C:\Program Files\WinRAR>perl backup.pl
String found where operator expected at backup.pl line 35, near "$_ 'backup'"
        (Missing operator before 'backup'?)
syntax error at backup.pl line 35, near "$_ 'backup'"
Execution of backup.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

I was using

# Get time
my @test = POSIX::strftime("%m-%d-%Y--%H-%M-%S\n", localtime);
print @test;

To get the current time, however I couldn't seem to get it to rename correctly.

What can I do to fix this? Please note I am doing this on a windows box.