On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikki...@iki.fi>wrote:
> Hi, > > I wrote a script which copies files in directory to an another > directory based on user input. Any suggestions to simplify or shorten > this? I'm using Win XP. > instead of accepting inputs from user, how about using command line arguements so that you execute script as: $ your_script.pl --source_dir /foo --dest_dir /doo --days 7 CPAN module Getopt::Long would be helpful in this case - http://search.cpan.org/~jv/Getopt-Long-2.37/lib/Getopt/Long.pm cheers yogesh -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 1.0 GO d-@ s: a- C++$ UBL++>$ P+++>$ L+++>$ E- W++ N+ o K w-- !O- !M- V- PS+@ PE++@ Y+ !PGP t 5 X R+++ tv b+> DI++ D G e++ h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------