On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Akens, Anthony wrote: > On an unrelated note, something that is an immense help to me when using > "or die" is to put $! in the die statement, for example: > > or die "Can't open documents: $!"; > > The $! inserts the "human readable" error returned by the system, such as > "permission denied" or "file not found" which can help a lot in figuring out > what's broke.
Absolutely! Often a great timesaver. > From: Simopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Newbie Stupid Question! > > > Hi All, > I'm a newbie just starting out learning Perl. > My problem is I have a bunch of files that are (.doc) files, and I want to rename > the files (.data). > I also want move then to another directory, but I don't really want to destroy or > change the old ones (.doc). Life has become a lot easier for me since learning about the rename command. You could copy the .doc files to your new directory and then run rename on those to change the name: mkdir new cp *.doc new cd new rename 's/.doc$/.data/' * Or something along those lines... Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
