Re: [Perl-unix-users] renaming files script problem

2002-04-29 Thread jessica tishmack
One more question...I don't know what your file setup is and it may do exactly what you want it to, but here's something to think about: If you have these files: miami-one miami.one miami.two Your program copies over the contents of miami-one to one. Then it deletes both miami-one and miami

Re: [Perl-unix-users] renaming files script problem

2002-04-29 Thread Nick Selby
At 11:23 AM 4/29/2002 -0500, you wrote: >One thing I noticed (but shouldn't be causing your problem) was that you >did an unlink on miami-$Name but not on miami.$Name...wasn't sure if it >was intentional to only unlink one, or if you wanted to unlink both. Yowza. Worked like a charm. The prob

Re: [Perl-unix-users] renaming files script problem

2002-04-29 Thread jessica tishmack
I looked at your code, and didn't see anything wrong, so I tried your program with my own test directories...and it worked fine for me. What exactly seems to be the problem? One thing I noticed (but shouldn't be causing your problem) was that you did an unlink on miami-$Name but not on miami

[Perl-unix-users] renaming files script problem

2002-04-29 Thread Nick Selby
Hi, all, I am a total newbie and I have a script here that's behaving strangely. Its purpose is to go into a directory, take the file names, search them for a string and replace it (in this case removing a prefix from the file name) , write the new files to disk, delete the old ones and that's