hi robby_dobby.... in continuation to the above querry i have written a code to copy a directory and delete .svn file in particular from the copy directory. havnt used file::Rsync option but written a subroutine to do so but its doing nothing and stucked in infinite loop. the directory is copied but after that when i called subrouting it was stuck in infinite loop showing - only ...the code is

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Copy;
use File::Basename;
use Cwd;
use File::Copy::Recursive qw(dircopy) ;
############################################################
sub traversedir {
     my $givendir = $_[0];
     opendir(my $findsvn , $givendir) or die "Couldn't read dir: $! \n
+";
     my @traversedfiles = readdir($findsvn);
     foreach my $searchfile (@traversedfiles) {
        $searchfile =~ /^\.svn$/;
        print "$searchfile\n";
        rmdir $searchfile;
        if ( -d $searchfile) {
            &traversedir($searchfile);
        }
        else {
         last;
        }
     }
}
############################################################
my $fullpath = cwd();
my $value = 0;
my $file = basename($fullpath);
my $dir = dirname($fullpath);

print("\nWORK DIRECTORY PATH IS $dir \n");

opendir(my $pathindex, $dir ) or die "Couldn't read index : $!\n";
while (my $currentfile = readdir($pathindex)) {
         print "\nCurrent Directory File $value\t";
         print "$currentfile","\n";
     $value++;
}

print "\nENTER THE PROJECT NAME FROM ABOVE LIST\n\n";
my $projectdir = <STDIN>;
chop($projectdir);

my $projectdirpath = "/"."$projectdir";
my $workingdirectory = ($dir.$projectdirpath);
chdir($workingdirectory."/trunk"); 
my $newpath = cwd();

my $topprojectdir = $newpath;
my $source_dirrtl;
my $target_dirrtl ;            

opendir(my $index, $newpath ) or die "Couldn't read index : $!\n";
while (my $file = readdir($index)) {
       if ($file eq "rtl" ) {
         if(chdir($newpath."/rtl")) {
           my $currentworkingdir = cwd();
           $source_dirrtl = $currentworkingdir;
           $target_dirrtl = ("$newpath"."/rtl2"); 
         }
         last;
       }     

       elsif ($file eq "vhdl") {
         if(chdir($newpath."/vhdl")) {
           my $currentworkingdir = cwd();
           $source_dirrtl =   $currentworkingdir;
           $target_dirrtl = ("$newpath"."/vhdl2"); 
         }
         last;
       }
}
closedir($index);
my $source_dirsim = ("$newpath"."/sim");
my $target_dirsim1 = ("$newpath"."/sim2");
my $source_dirsynth;
my $target_dirsynth1 ;

opendir(my $indexs, $newpath ) or die "Couldn't read indexs : $!\n";
while (my $file = readdir($indexs)) {
       if ($file eq "par" ) {
         if(chdir($newpath."/par")) {
           my $currentworkingdir = cwd();
           $source_dirsynth = $currentworkingdir;
           $target_dirsynth1 = ("$newpath"."/par2"); 
         }
         last;
       }     

       elsif ($file eq "synth") {
         if(chdir($newpath."/synth")) {
           my $currentworkingdir = cwd();
           $source_dirsynth =   $currentworkingdir;
           $target_dirsynth1 = ("$newpath"."/synth2"); 
         }
         last;
       }
}
closedir($indexs);

mkdir($target_dirrtl,0777);
mkdir($target_dirsim1,0777);
mkdir($target_dirsynth1,0777);

my $filertl = dircopy($source_dirrtl, $target_dirrtl);
my $filesim = dircopy($source_dirsim, $target_dirsim1);
my $filesynth = dircopy($source_dirsynth, $target_dirsynth1);
&traversedir($target_dirrtl);
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After

sub traversedir {
     my $givendir = $_[0];
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insert

print "traversedir $givendir\n";
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Probably you are stumbling over "." and ".." …

Hi,

soonix already pointed out the issue around . and .. directory traversals. You'll need to keep track of visited directories to avoid looping over them again. There's also one more path that you can look into:

$searchfile =~ /^\.svn$/;
print "$searchfile\n";
rmdir $searchfile;
if ( -d $searchfile) {
    &traversedir($searchfile);
} else {
    last;
}
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Now, this is not necessarily a problem - but you are not really checking for .svn folders, merely matching and overwriting the $searchfile variable. What do you think would happen if there were no match? :-)

That said, what's wrong with just doing svn export $srcFolder $targetFolder? It doesn't look like you're doing it as an exercise (those vhdl, rtl, sim folders?) If you have svn installed, you already have this tool at your disposal. Why reinvent the wheel? :-)

But he would have to be concerned about "ignored" files, wouldn't he?

thanks robby_dobby for replying....yes i am trying to copy svn folders from my local directory to a target directory to do some experiment on target directory...... will try your suggestion and will reply u soon