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Re: incrementing the file

by toolic (Bishop)
on Feb 21, 2012 at 20:10 UTC ( [id://955378]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to incrementing the file

You could use a file test like -e in a while loop: 
my $output_file = "output_$input_file";
my $i = 1;
while (-e $output_file) {
    $output_file = "output_$input_file$i";
    $i++;
}

$abc_cmd = "abc.exe -i $input_file -o $output_file ";

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