And don't forget the $^E variable, which will give you the OS-specific error, which can sometimes give you more info on why something failed.
If you're using a Win32 system, you might also want to check out the Win32::FileOp module which can tie into your built-in Win32 APIs to do things like copying, renaming, copying directories, deleting full directories, etc.,etc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Stupid Question! 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] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
