Re^2: copy an epub as a file, not a directory

Sorry for any confusion. I run an Apache web server on my local iMac and do all my development here before uploading to my host. My Perl script copies an epub from my Desktop to a local directory for testing the local web site. This is where I'm running into problems. The commands I'm using are: my @sys=("cp", "-R", "-i", "/Users/user/Desktop/$FileName", "/Volumes/Backup3/httpd/public/local/fiction/data/$Author/$FileName"); system(@sys) == 0 or die "system cp failed: $?"; When I access the library web site, it shows me list of recent files which are clickable. Previously I could click a file (in Safari), and it would download fine. But now it's throwing an error: 'Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /fiction/data/Baldacci,David/Saving Faith.epub/ on this server.' This is where 'ls' tells me that file is a directory, not a file.

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Re^3: copy an epub as a file, not a directory by jcb (Parson) on Sep 12, 2019 at 23:05 UTC
First, you should not be giving `cp` the `-R` flag if you are intending to copy files rather than directories. Second, now we know that we are looking at a Macintosh... Classic MacOS files had both data and resource forks. In MacOS X, most of the system plays games where a "file" can actually be a directory in the underlying nix environment to emulate the classic resource fork. Long story short, are you sure that the "files" on your desktop are actually* files?	[reply]

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Re^3: copy an epub as a file, not a directory
by jcb (Parson) on Sep 12, 2019 at 23:05 UTC

First, you should not be giving cp the -R flag if you are intending to copy files rather than directories.

Second, now we know that we are looking at a Macintosh... Classic MacOS files had both data and resource forks. In MacOS X, most of the system plays games where a "file" can actually be a directory in the underlying *nix environment to emulate the classic resource fork. Long story short, are you sure that the "files" on your desktop are actually files?

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