RE: perl help : escape character

-Original Message- From: Irfan J Sayed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:29 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: perl help : escape character Hi All, I am running following clearcase command my @activity = `$CT lsactivity -short -invob

RE: perl help : escape character

Thanks raymond . it's working now. Regards Irfan Sayed Raymond Raj [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/06/2006 11:23 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Irfan J Sayed/India/[EMAIL PROTECTED], beginners@perl.org cc Subject RE: perl help : escape character -Original Message-

Date difference.

Hi, i have two date string reading from the log file like below. $date1=Mon Mar 27 02:45:15 2006; $date2=Wed Apr 5 23:20:46 2006; $Number_of_Days = $date1-$date2; i want to get number of days between these two dates. Can someone help me. Thanks Hridyesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

RE: Date difference.

hridyesh pant mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:25 PM: Hi, i have two date string reading from the log file like below. $date1=Mon Mar 27 02:45:15 2006; $date2=Wed Apr 5 23:20:46 2006; $Number_of_Days = $date1-$date2; i want to get number of days between

RE: Date difference.

Hi, i have two date string reading from the log file like below. $date1=Mon Mar 27 02:45:15 2006; $date2=Wed Apr 5 23:20:46 2006; $Number_of_Days = $date1-$date2; i want to get number of days between these two dates. Can someone help me. Have a look at Steffen Beyer's excellent

Re: Date difference.

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, hridyesh pant wrote: Hi, i have two date string reading from the log file like below. $date1=Mon Mar 27 02:45:15 2006; $date2=Wed Apr 5 23:20:46 2006; $Number_of_Days = $date1-$date2; i want to get number of days between these two dates. Can someone help me. I

Re: Date difference.

hridyesh pant wrote: Hi, i have two date string reading from the log file like below. $date1=Mon Mar 27 02:45:15 2006; $date2=Wed Apr 5 23:20:46 2006; $Number_of_Days = $date1-$date2; i want to get number of days between these two dates. Can someone help me. Excellent summary of most

Re: Date difference.

Thanks Thomas i got it. Regards Hridyesh Thomas Bätzler wrote: Hi, i have two date string reading from the log file like below. $date1=Mon Mar 27 02:45:15 2006; $date2=Wed Apr 5 23:20:46 2006; $Number_of_Days = $date1-$date2; i want to get number of days between these two dates. Can

Re: Help Required on the Script

Thank you giyz for the help i require one more help from yourside. i have one more code where in i am getting error on print of a value of a variable, below is the code #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my $string=[EMAIL PROTECTED]; print $string; On executing the above i get the

Re: Help Required on the Script

Hi Mazhar, You have to escape @ sysmbol .Inside double quote perl will interpolate the value of @ and it will think @04 is an array so try #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my $string=[EMAIL PROTECTED]; print $string; Correct me if i am wrong Thanks Swayam

RE: Help Required on the Script

-Original Message- From: Mazhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:41 PM To: Jaime Murillo Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Help Required on the Script Thank you giyz for the help i require one more help from yourside. i have one more code where in i

Can any one tell me a better way to upload a file from the HTML form to a location in my home directorrt.

I tried many ways, Though I am seeing the file. the SIZE IS 0. I tried out these ways First One = my $upload_file= $q-param('upload_file'); # This is the description file which is being uploaded if ($upload_file) { my $outfile=/home/anish/testing.doc; open(OUTFILE,$outfile)

Re: Help Required on the Script

thanks Raymond for the help it works, and what do u mean by variable interpolation Regards Mazhar On 4/6/06, Raymond Raj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Mazhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:41 PM To: Jaime Murillo Cc:

RE: Help Required on the Script

-Original Message- From: Mazhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Help Required on the Script thanks Raymond for the help it works, and what do u mean by variable interpolation may be i

Zombie Trouble Shooting

I have a perl script that becomes a zombie. It runs fine for days or weeks checking for new data every 60 seconds. But after a long period of time running on Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 4, and now Fedora Core 5 it remains in memory as an active process and maintains its network tcp/ip connections but

Regex help

I would like to accept monetary values like $234.00 $2678 but not values with letters like $333.oo This script below almost works, but I can't get it to catch the $40o.89 Is there a simpler way to do this and catch all the conditions? TIA Owen #!/usr/bin/perl while (DATA){ chomp;

RE: Regex help

Hi, I would like to accept monetary values like $234.00 $2678 but not values with letters like $333.oo This script below almost works, but I can't get it to catch the $40o.89 How about # assume ,xx is really supposed to be .xx $payment =~ s/,(\d{2})$/.$1/; # throw out any

Re: Can any one tell me a better way to upload a file from the HTML form to a location in my home directorrt.

Anish Kumar K. schreef: I tried many ways, Though I am seeing the file. the SIZE IS 0. Maybe this helps: http://perlmeme.org/tutorials/cgi_upload.html -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regex help

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 22:29 +1000, Owen wrote: I would like to accept monetary values like $234.00 $2678 but not values with letters like $333.oo This script below almost works, but I can't get it to catch the $40o.89 Is there a simpler way to do this and catch all the conditions?

Re: Regex help

Owen schreef: I would like to accept monetary values like $234.00 $2678 but not values with letters like $333.oo This script below almost works, but I can't get it to catch the $40o.89 Is there a simpler way to do this and catch all the conditions? See Regexp::Common::number

Re: Zombie Trouble Shooting

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 07:54 -0400, John Ackley wrote: Can anyone recommend any debugging tools or techniques? If it's important for this program to be running all the time, you should add it to you init(8) rc files. Zombies happen for two reasons. The first it that it is waiting for its parent

RE: Date difference.

Excellent summary of most methods at http://perlmeme.org/faqs/datetime/comparing_dates.html. Regards James Turnbull Hi All, I'm running through the example of Date::Calc on the site listed above. When I plug in today's date as my birthday... it returns: I am -31 days old. I would

perl help

Hi all, I am running following clearcase command in perl my @vob_list = `cleartool lsvob -short c:\\vob_list.txt`; I am getting output in c:\vob_list.txt file but not in the @vob_list array can anybody plz help me out in this regard Regards Irfan Sayed

Re: Date difference.

Brian Volk wrote: Excellent summary of most methods at http://perlmeme.org/faqs/datetime/comparing_dates.html. Regards James Turnbull Hi All, I'm running through the example of Date::Calc on the site listed above. When I plug in today's date as my birthday... it returns: I am -31 days

RE: Date difference.

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 09:28 -0400, Brian Volk wrote: Excellent summary of most methods at http://perlmeme.org/faqs/datetime/comparing_dates.html. Regards James Turnbull Hi All, I'm running through the example of Date::Calc on the site listed above. When I plug in today's date

Re: Regex help

On 4/6/06, Dr.Ruud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Owen schreef: I would like to accept monetary values like $234.00 $2678 but not values with letters like $333.oo This script below almost works, but I can't get it to catch the $40o.89 Is there a simpler way to do this and

Re: perl help

Irfan J Sayed wrote: Hi all, Hello, I am running following clearcase command in perl my @vob_list = `cleartool lsvob -short c:\\vob_list.txt`; I am getting output in c:\vob_list.txt file but not in the @vob_list array Your redirecting the output to the file, so its not going to

Re: Can any one tell me a better way to upload a file from the HTML form to a location in my home directorrt.

Anish Kumar K. wrote: I tried many ways, Though I am seeing the file. the SIZE IS 0. I tried out these ways use the upload() info in CGI.pm's POD, be sure to do it befpre any headers are output :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

windows command help

Hi All, I need to run the windows copy command from command prompt to copy several folders and files in specific folder to another folder I am running following command C:\Documents and Settings\Administratorcopy D:\vobs d: D:\vobs\* The system cannot find the file specified. 0 file(s)

Re: windows command help

It's so strange that you ask that question here.Does your problem have any relations with Perl? -Original Message- From: Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 6, 2006 10:52 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: windows command help Hi All, I need to run the windows copy command from

Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

That is, why does the output differ between: perl -e print join(\\n\,@{[`dir`]}); and dir | perl -pne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 10:42 -0500, Michael Goldshteyn wrote: That is, why does the output differ between: perl -e print join(\\n\,@{[`dir`]}); and dir | perl -pne Different environments. Use File::Find instead. See `perldoc File::Find` for details. -- __END__ Just my 0.0002

Crypt::GPG produces an empty cleartext file

Hi Folks, I have a job that takes in an encrypted file and decrypts it using Crypt::GPG. code for my $encrypted_file (@files) { open(CIPHERTXT, $encrypted_file) or croak Can't open encrypted_file: $encrypted_file\n; my @ciphertxt = CIPHERTXT; my($cleartxt,

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

What does different environments mean? Why should the two uses of dir differ in their output? Mr. Shawn H. Corey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 10:42 -0500, Michael Goldshteyn wrote: That is, why does the output differ between: perl -e print

RE: Crypt::GPG produces an empty cleartext file

-Original Message- From: RICHARD FERNANDEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:20 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Crypt::GPG produces an empty cleartext file Hi Folks, I have a job that takes in an encrypted file and decrypts it using Crypt::GPG. code for

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

Michael Goldshteyn wrote: What does different environments mean? Why should the two uses of dir differ in their output? because system calls rely on you ENV via CLI and %ENV when called in perl. (IE *you* are executing it in CLI and *perl* is executing it when using backticks = different

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

On 4/6/06, Michael Goldshteyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is, why does the output differ between: perl -e print join(\\n\,@{[`dir`]}); and dir | perl -pne First of all, you haven't told us how it differs. Since dir is an os-specific command, most of the people on this list can't

What is Variable Interpolation [was: Re: Help Required on the Script]

Mazhar am Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 11.48: thanks Raymond for the help it works, and what do u mean by variable interpolation Hello Mazhar It will help you a lot to know and use the documentation system of perl. You can get an overview by typing (on the command line): perldoc perl (docs)

RE: Crypt::GPG produces an empty cleartext file

What version of Crypt:GPG are u using? Derek Bellner Smith Unix Systems Engineer Cardinal Health Dublin, Ohio 614-757-5000 Main 614-757-8075 Direct 614-652-4336 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Derek, Thanks for your response. I'm using: Crypt::GPG version 1.42 Perl version 5.6.0 gpg version 1.0.6

Re: windows command help

On 4/6/06, Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I need to run the windows copy command from command prompt to copy several folders and files in specific folder to another folder I am running following command C:\Documents and Settings\Administratorcopy D:\vobs d: D:\vobs\* The

Re: windows command help

On 4/6/06, Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip deepcopy(D:\vobs D:); snip Whoops, I said it was untested code. This line should read either deepcopy(D:\\vobs, D:); or deepcopy(D:/vobs, D:); depending on your style. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

RE: Crypt::GPG produces an empty cleartext file

-Original Message- From: RICHARD FERNANDEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:45 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: Crypt::GPG produces an empty cleartext file What version of Crypt:GPG are u using? Derek Bellner Smith Unix Systems Engineer

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

Point taken about the call to join(). With regards to the difference between the two samples, the difference is larger than new-lines. DIR from the command line shows info about file like their date of last change and size. It also shows how many bytes are used in the directory being DIRed and

Re: windows command help

Thanks Chas, That is what i was looking for. Regards Irfan Sayed Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/06/2006 10:38 PM To Irfan J Sayed/India/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc beginners@perl.org Subject Re: windows command help On 4/6/06, Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I need to

Re: Zombie Trouble Shooting

On 4/6/06, Mr. Shawn H. Corey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Zombies happen for two reasons. The first it that it is waiting for its parent to harvest its status code. snip Just to expand on this, there are several methods of harvesting the status code of your children. The first is simply wait

RE: Date difference.

I saw that someone already recommended Date::Calc, but I'll make another suggestion: Time::Local. It's a much more lightweight module, and it depends on your ultimate needs, but it's a good one to be familiar with. It takes text dates and converts them to Perl time() format. -Original

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

Michael Goldshteyn wrote: Point taken about the call to join(). perl -e 'print for `dir`;' Is even sexxierr :) With regards to the difference between the two samples, the difference is larger than new-lines. DIR from the command line shows info about file like their date of last

Re: windows command help

Chas Owens wrote: On 4/6/06, Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I need to run the windows copy command from command prompt to copy several folders and files in specific folder to another folder I am running following command C:\Documents and Settings\Administratorcopy D:\vobs

RE: windows command help

It wasn't Windows did the copy in this case, but it was the result of an issue that almost all Win32 Perl users out there run into pretty quickly, which is forgetting to escape backslashes in file paths when using double-quotes. Another module to look into is Win32::FileOp, which is very nice if

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

The answer to my own question in the OP. There is a difference, because the following should be performed to get the behavior of: dir | perl -pne perl -e print `cmd /C dir`; the cmd /C part is required to get equivalent behavior. Mystery solved! Michael Goldshteyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

RE: Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

D'oh! I would have caught that for you sooner, but it looks like I was using one of the proposed solutions instead of the OP code. The reason for the difference is that 'dir' is not a program, it's a built-in command defined by the cmd.exe shell. When people start using Monad more I anticipate

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

On 4/6/06, Michael Goldshteyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Point taken about the call to join(). With regards to the difference between the two samples, the difference is larger than new-lines. DIR from the command line shows info about file like their date of last change and size. It also shows

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

Jay Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/6/06, Michael Goldshteyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Point taken about the call to join(). With regards to the difference between the two samples, the difference is larger than new-lines. DIR from the command line shows

Data structure key as a literal string

With the intention of optimization, I am looking for a way around using *eval* in the below snippet at line 19: my $value = eval $key; The objective is to get from $key to $value, knowing that $key is a literal string. Thank you for an insights! #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

Michael Goldshteyn schreef: By the way, the output of perl -e print `dir`; has: - All files/dirs with spaces have the spaces escaped with a backslash (e.g. a file such as Hello there.txt looks like Hello\ there.txt - The output is similar to dir /W, except that the header (volume/directory

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 13:10 -0700, Ryan Gies wrote: With the intention of optimization, I am looking for a way around using *eval* in the below snippet at line 19: my $value = eval $key; Please say this is a late April Fool's joke. Your suggested use of eval is not optimal. This is

RE: Date difference.

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 11:03 -0700, Timothy Johnson wrote: I saw that someone already recommended Date::Calc, but I'll make another suggestion: Time::Local. It's a much more lightweight module, and it depends on your ultimate needs, but it's a good one to be familiar with. It takes text dates

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 13:35 -0500, JupiterHost.Net wrote: perl -e 'print for `dir`;' Is even sexxierr :) dir /w Not sexy but simple. -- __END__ Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

Ryan Gies wrote: With the intention of optimization, I am looking for a way around using *eval* in the below snippet at line 19: my $value = eval $key; The objective is to get from $key to $value, knowing that $key is a literal string. Thank you for an insights! #!/usr/bin/perl -w

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

Now I'm confused, what's the difference between a Perl interrupter and a Perl interpreter? Or, what perldoc is that info in? Thanks Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 13:10 -0700, Ryan Gies wrote: With the intention of optimization, I am looking for a way around using *eval*

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 14:38 -0700, Ryan Gies wrote: Now I'm confused, what's the difference between a Perl interrupter and a Perl interpreter? Or, what perldoc is that info in? Oops. You are correct. That should have been 'interpreter'. -- __END__ Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth,

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 16:06 -0500, JupiterHost.Net wrote: my $fruit = $hash-{'food'}{'fruit'}[0]; print Name: $fruit-{'name'}\n, Color: $fruit-{'color'}\n; That should be: my $fruit = $hash{'food'}{'fruit'}[0]; 'hash' is a real hash, not a reference. -- __END__ Just my 0.0002

Re: What is Variable Interpolation [was: Re: Help Required on the Script]

D. Bolliger wrote: btw, @04 is not a valid (array) variable name; they must not start with a digit, as not keyword/builtin does. $ perl -Mwarnings -Mstrict -le' our @04 = 10 .. 14; print @04' 10 11 12 13 14 You are probably thinking scalars and/or lexicals. John -- use Perl; program

Re: Why does dir produce different results when called from Perl

Michael Goldshteyn wrote: That is, why does the output differ between: perl -e print join(\\n\,@{[`dir`]}); and dir | perl -pne $ which dir $ alias dir alias dir='ls -l' $ unalias dir $ alias dir bash: alias: dir: not found $ which dir /usr/bin/dir It looks like the first example is

Re: Zombie Trouble Shooting

On 4/6/06, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip use POSIX :sys_wait_h; my $handler = sub { my $pid; while (($pid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)) 0) { # do something with $pid } $SIG{CHLD} = $handler #reinstall the handler When perl compiles this it will

Re: Crypt::GPG produces an empty cleartext file

RICHARD FERNANDEZ wrote: Hi Folks, Hello, I have a job that takes in an encrypted file and decrypts it using Crypt::GPG. code for my $encrypted_file (@files) { open(CIPHERTXT, $encrypted_file) or croak Can't open encrypted_file: $encrypted_file\n; You should

Re: Zombie Trouble Shooting

Chas Owens wrote: On 4/6/06, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip use POSIX :sys_wait_h; my $handler = sub { my $pid; while (($pid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)) 0) { # do something with $pid } $SIG{CHLD} = $handler #reinstall the handler When perl compiles this it

Re: Zombie Trouble Shooting

On 4/6/06, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, the lexical $handler holds the anonymous subroutine. snip Ah, you are right, the code should be { #setup the auto-reaper for fork'ed children my $handler; $handler = sub { my $pid; while (($pid = waitpid(-1,

Re: Zombie Trouble Shooting

Chas Owens wrote: On 4/6/06, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, the lexical $handler holds the anonymous subroutine. snip Ah, you are right, the code should be If you had strictures enabled then perl would have told you. Make sure that this is near the top of your programs:

Re: Zombie Trouble Shooting

On 4/6/06, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If you had strictures enabled then perl would have told you. Make sure that this is near the top of your programs: use strict; snip Yes, always good advice. Unfortunately it would not have helped me here since I was using the Perl

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

Ryan == Ryan Gies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ryan Now I'm confused, what's the difference between a Perl interrupter and a Ryan Perl interpreter? Or, what perldoc is that info in? Perl interrupter: someone who IM's me with a Perl question. Perl interpreter: me reading the answer to them from

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 19:48 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Perl interpreter: me reading the answer to them from the Fine Manual. OK, I'll bite. What's a 'Fine Manual? (You're not going to charge me money for this, are you?) -- __END__ Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

On 4/6/06, Mr. Shawn H. Corey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 19:48 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Perl interpreter: me reading the answer to them from the Fine Manual. OK, I'll bite. What's a 'Fine Manual? (You're not going to charge me money for this, are you?) snip You

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

You should consider RTFM'ing. Hello,what's RTFM then? -- Jeff Pang NetEase AntiSpam Team http://corp.netease.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: Data structure key as a literal string

On 4/6/06, Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should consider RTFM'ing. Hello,what's RTFM then? snip Read The Furnished Materials Read The Fine Manual Read The F'ing Manual etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: windows command help

Hi, I tried the option given by you but it's throwing following error. Undefined subroutine main::syscopy called at C:\irfan\backup.pl line 20 I did following thing use file::Xcopy; syscopy(D:\\vobs,D:\\backup); Any sol. on this plz? Regards Irfan Sayed Irfan J Sayed/India/[EMAIL

Re: windows command help

On 4/7/06, Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip use file::Xcopy; syscopy(D:\\vobs,D:\\backup); Any sol. on this plz? Regards Irfan Sayed snip If that is exactly the code you used then the problem is use file::Xcopy;. It should read use File::Xcopy; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: windows command help

Hi Chas, I corrected. but still same error. I put as use File::Xcopy; Any other sol. plz Regards Irfan Sayed Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07/2006 10:02 AM To Irfan J Sayed/India/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc beginners@perl.org Subject Re: windows command help On 4/7/06, Irfan J Sayed

Re: windows command help

On 4/7/06, Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chas, I corrected. but still same error. I put as use File::Xcopy; Any other sol. plz Regards Irfan Sayed snip Are you sure that the module is installed? You can find out easily by running the following command. perl -MFile::Xcopy

Re: windows command help

Hi, Following command works fine. use File::Copy::Recursive qw(dircopy); dircopy($source, $target); Thanks for all your help. Regards Irfan Sayed JupiterHost.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07/2006 12:05 AM To beginners@perl.org cc Subject Re: windows command help Chas Owens

zip command in perl

Hi, I need to zip my backup dir. so that it will automatically convert my backup dir to backup.zip file can it be happen through perl ? Any sol. on this? Regards Irfan Sayed

Re: zip command in perl

On 4/7/06, Irfan J Sayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to zip my backup dir. so that it will automatically convert my backup dir to backup.zip file can it be happen through perl ? Any sol. on this? Regards Irfan Sayed Are you familiar with http://search.cpan.org? It is a search

Re: zip command in perl

Hi Chas, I downloaded the zip file from CPAN But i am not getting one point which command i should use in perl . i mean what is the syntax. which module i should choose from that zip file after unzipping. (zip.pm ?) plz let me know. Regards Irfan Sayed Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]