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Re: Re: cp -p in perl?

by BuddhaNature (Beadle)
on Apr 20, 2004 at 23:37 UTC ( [id://346829]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: cp -p in perl?
in thread cp -p in perl?

It looks like (so far) the best way to do this is to do all your work on a tempfile ( I like File::Temp myself) version of the file you want to copy and then do your chmod and/or chown on the tempfile and then use rename(). This seems to work correctly.

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Re: cp -p in perl?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 21, 2004 at 08:01 UTC
    That doesn't sound like a good idea at all to me. First of all, we're talking about just copying a file, not about any modification. Secondly, using chmod/chown is a lot more work than just using cp. But most importantly, rename will not rename from one device to another.

    Abigail

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