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Re: Re: Move or rename script

by Anonymous Monk
on May 24, 2002 at 15:07 UTC ( [id://169096]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Move or rename script
in thread Move or rename script

Actually I would like to try and do it within a perl script without using modules similiar to how I did my create directory: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
sub mak
{
!system "/bin/mkdir", @_;
}
print "Enter name of Directory you want to create: ";
chomp($newb = <STDIN>);
mak $newb;
print "$newb directory created.\n";

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Can the same be done with the move command except I want to use command line arguments when the script is invoked???

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Re: Re: Re: Move or rename script
by Jenda (Abbot) on May 24, 2002 at 15:55 UTC

    You say you want to "move or rename" something.

    Let's see 

     # perldoc -f move
 No documentation for perl function `move' found


    ok, so let's try the other

     # perldoc -f rename
    rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME
            Changes the name of a file; an existing file NEWNAME will be
            clobbered. Returns true for success, false otherwise.
            ...

    


      Jenda
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Re: Re: Re: Move or rename script
by IOrdy (Friar) on May 24, 2002 at 15:58 UTC
    use backticks `` to make your system calls. (sorry I cant find a good link)

    any arguments can just be passed into the backtick.

    i.e. a recursive list of files that could be split with "\n" into an array.<br /
    @foo = `find $path -name $ftype`;

    And for move:

    $where = '/home/iordy/public_html/';
    $what = '/home/iordy/whatever.pl';
    @foo = `mv $args $what $where`;
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