Re: What is the easiest way to copy one file to another?

Another possibility:

rename ( $oldfile, "$oldfile.bak" ) or die $!;
rename ( $newfile, $oldfile ) or die $!;
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Re: Re: What is the easiest way to copy one file to another? by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Oct 31, 2001 at 01:54 UTC
? This implements a file move, not a copy. I think the questioner wanted a piece of code that would produce two files with identical contents. This expects both `$newfile` and `$oldfile` to exist beforehand. It's very different from what `File::Copy` would do. (It's not wrong code, it just does something different.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]