On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:09:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zentara) wrote: Ooops, made a dumb error. Corrected below.
>The 33261 is file permissions and file type in decimal. >Under linux, chmod accepts this value, maybe under solaris >you have to to have the octal value? > >Try this instead: > >#!/usr/bin/perl >use warnings; >use File::Copy; >use strict; >my $mode = (stat $ARGV[0])[2]; #decimal unmasked >my $mode = sprintf("%04o", $mode & 07777) ; #octal masked off >print $mode,"\n"; >copy( "$ARGV[0]", "$ARGV[0]\.bak" ); chmod (oct($mode), "$ARGV[0]\.bak"); >print "Backup completed.\n"; >exit 0; > #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use File::Copy; use strict; my $mode = (stat $ARGV[0])[2]; #decimal unmasked my $mode = sprintf("%04o", $mode & 07777) ; #octal masked off print $mode,"\n"; copy( "$ARGV[0]", "$ARGV[0]\.bak" ); chmod (oct($mode), "$ARGV[0]\.bak"); print "Backup completed.\n"; exit 0; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]