Replication of directory subtrees

rbi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
I have some directory trees like these dir1 and dir2 under directory origin:

origin
    dir1
        subdir1
        subdir2
        subdir3
        file1
        file2

    dir2
        subdir1
        subdir2
        subdir3
        file1
        file2
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that I want to copy under directory destination. They contain both directories and files.
I came up with this where I can also set a parameter to specify the depth of replication, and it seems to work, but I wonder if there is a more elegant/shorter way to do this.

use strict;
use File::Copy;
use File::Basename;
use File::Path;
use File::Glob ':glob';
    
my $din = 'c:/temp/origin/';
my $dout = 'c:/temp/destination/';

docp($din,$dout,1);

sub docp {
    my $din = shift();  # ORIGIN DIRECTORY
    my $dout = shift(); # DESTINATION DIRECTORY
    my $tree = shift(); # DEPTH OF DIRECTORY RECURSION
    my ($f,$d,$b);
    die if -e $dout;
    mkpath($dout);
    my @list = bsd_glob($din."*");
    map { 
        ($f,$d) = fileparse($_);
        if (-d and $tree) {
            $f = $f.'/';
            $b = $_.'/';
            docp($b,$dout.$f,$tree) if $tree ge 0;
        } else {
        copy ($_,$dout.$f);
        }
    } @list;
    $tree = $tree - 1;
}
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Thank you in advance.
roberto

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•Re: Replication of directory subtrees by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 24, 2003 at 14:30 UTC
How about just looking at how File::NCopy does it? Or at least doing something with File::Find, so you're far more portable and tested. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: Replication of directory subtrees by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 24, 2003 at 14:29 UTC
I'd do `system cp => '-r', $din, $dout;`, or if I'm on a system that doesn't have a recursive copy, I'd do: `chdir $din or die; system "tar cf - '$din' \| (cd $dout; tar xf -)"`. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Replication of directory subtrees by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 24, 2003 at 14:52 UTC
Or there's always rsync, too.	[reply]
Re: Replication of directory subtrees by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 24, 2003 at 14:59 UTC
Well, not always. POSIX compliant systems will have `cp` and `tar`, and many non POSIX compliant systems will too. (Anything remotely smelling like Unix, including Cygwin). `rsync` on the other hand isn't a standard tool. But yes, `rsync` will work, just like `scp`. Or you could make a business copy and split off a mirror. But that's not standard either. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Replication of directory subtrees by eduardo (Curate) on Apr 24, 2003 at 14:52 UTC
I hate to offer a non-perlish solution, but have you ever considered using xcopy? It would seem like you are on a win32ish system... and xcopy is exactly what this was designed for. All that being said, if you need this to be cross platform, you are way better off with some of the other monks answers :)	[reply]
Re: Re: Replication of directory subtrees by rbi (Monk) on Apr 24, 2003 at 15:05 UTC
Yes, It is going to be subroutine within a CGI application that should run both under MsWin32 and Unix. Thanks.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Replication of directory subtrees by eduardo (Curate) on Apr 24, 2003 at 15:17 UTC
well, in that case! `if ($^O =~ /win32/i) { # do stuff with xcopy } else { # do stuff with cp -r }` [download] I am not advocating this solution... I just thought it would be cheesy way to do it. Please, for the love of anything you may or may not hold holy, use something like File::Find or File::NCopy instead like merlyn suggested.	[reply] [d/l]