in reply to Why am unable to create another directory using perl?

Hello finddata,

Although backticks enclose a system command, the backtick construct itself still constitutes a Perl command, and so must terminate in a semicolon (unless it’s the last command in a block):

...
`find . -name '*.html' | cpio -pdm  html`;
#                                        ^
mkdir 'files',0755;
...

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^2: Why am unable to create another directory using perl?
by finddata (Sexton) on Mar 15, 2017 at 06:29 UTC
    Is it possible to copy files without directory structure? 
    chdir $output_dir;
mkdir 'html',0755;
`find . -name '*.html' | cpio -pdm  html`;


chdir $output_dir;
mkdir 'htmlfiles',0755;

`cp -r html htmlfiles`;

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    Here it copies along with directory structure
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[d/l]
      What about files in different directories that have the same name?
      (Most prevalent probably index.html)
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[d/l]

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