> Hi,
>
> Thanks all for the help on the mail question a few days back. That's
> fixed. Now I've run into another problem. I'm trying to copy a file on
> a local network (off a PC) to my Mac. But when the script is called
> from within cron, it seems that the script doesn't run. The cron looks
> like this:
>
> * * * * * /Users/xxxx/Library/Scripts/backup.pl
>
> The script is as follows:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
>
> my @files = "db1.txt, db2.txt, db3.txt, db4.txt";
>
> foreach (@files) {
> rename "/path/to/pc/file/$_", "/Users/xxxx/Documents/$_".".bak";
You should always check that 'rename' succeeded (as apparently it isn't).
rename $oldfile, $newfile or warn "Can't rename file: $!";
$! will then provide you more information as to why its not working.
> }
>
> exit;
>
> And finally, should I even use perl to do this? I'm comfortable with
> the little perl I know, but should I use some sort of bash file -- I've
> never messed with bash before, but maybe now is a good time to learn. I
> don't even know if I am referencing "bash" correctly here.
>
Using Perl is fine, but you want something other than 'rename'. I
suspect this is failing because you are attempting to move a file across
a filesystem boundary, from perldoc -f rename:
"For example, it will usually not work across file system boundaries,
even though the system mv command sometimes compensates for this."
I would suggest File::Copy instead though make sure to check the docs
and test, I don't have my laptop to check for issues on OS X:
perldoc File::Copy
HTH,
http://danconia.org
