> I'm already bald so don't have the luxury of pulling hair over this. [...]
> $new = $tmpdir."/".$new; > $oldf = $File::Find::name; > print "hpdb cp\'ing $oldf => $new\n"; > copy($oldf, $new) > or die "Failed to copy $oldf => $new: $!"; > } I figured out the source of my problem: $oldf contains the path and endname. copy doesn't like that. So we need to chdir to the working directory. I've since rewritten scrapping filefind in favor of straight read of directory with readdir. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>