#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Storable; use Data::Dumper; use Cwd; # Note it is possible to override chdir to update $ENV{PWD} but I could not get it to work under strict my $dir; my $cwd = cwd; my %skuname = ( Lots of stuff here ) # Hard coded data to store in subdirectory # Where are we in working directory now? print "Current Directory by cwd is $cwd \n"; print "Current Directory by env is ", $ENV{'PWD'} , "\n"; # Lets take that info and create a new current working directory print "Appending skudbcurrent to dir\n"; $dir = $cwd . "/skudbcurrent"; print "We wish to move to $dir "; # This directory may or may not exist print "Checking to see if skudbcurrent exists, if not then create it\n"; unless (-d $dir) { mkdir $dir; print "We had to make $dir \n"; }; # We created it if it was not already there so now move into it # Note that cwd chdir and $ENV{'PWD'} get out of sync although the move was successful chdir $dir; #move into the new directory print "Moved to new directory:",$ENV{'PWD'} , "\n"; print "Which should match $dir\n"; # We made the move. Now store some data in the new location. store(\%skuname, 'skudb') or die "Can't store %a in new location!\n"; # Success! Now print out what we think was stored print "Done!\n"; print "Saved the file! er following:\n"; print Dumper( \%skuname );