Adam Turoff on Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:23:37 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] OT - Perl Question


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:42:55AM -0600, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> I am trying to call the following windows system command (copy)
> 
> sub backup {
> 	@args = ("copy", $_[0], $_[1]);
> 	system(@args) == 0
>      		or die "backup system @args failed: $?";
> }
> 
> [...]
>
> any help with explaination is appreciated.

That's probably because there's no command "copy" in your path.

You're working too hard to solve this problem.  Have you tried
using the File::Copy module?

               use File::Copy;
               copy("file1","file2");

That's all there is to it.  File::Copy is part of the standard Perl
distribution.   See http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=File::Copy
or http://www.perldoc.com if you have more questions.

Z.


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