Jan Eden wrote on 26.07.2005: >Hi, > >this does not work: > >mkdir "/some/dir/newsubdir" or die "$!"; > >while this does: > >chdir "/some/dir"; mkdir "newsubdir/" or die "$!"; > >In the shell, I can obviously execute the former. > >Is it true that in Perl, I can create a directory only within the >current working directory? > >Thanks, > >Jan -- These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I >have others. - Groucho Marx >
Apologies: Just found File::Path. Thanks, Jan -- Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>