Line Commands In Perl

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Re: Line Commands In Perl by AcidHawk (Vicar) on Nov 20, 2003 at 01:55 UTC
If you are looking at copying files to the . dir, have a look at File::Copy. `use File::Copy; copy("file1","file2");` [download] If you are trying to run system commands try ``, or system(). `cp file1 file2`; [download] OR `system(cp file1 file2);` [download] ----- Of all the things I've lost in my life, its my mind I miss the most.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Line Commands In Perl by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 19, 2003 at 22:25 UTC
What do you mean by "commands"? External programs? External programs are often called by using 'system' or 'qx', and sometimes by using 'open'. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Line Commands In Perl by duff (Parson) on Nov 19, 2003 at 22:27 UTC
"Best do commands"??? Best is what does the job correctly. It sounds like you just want to use system() though. Or, if you want to avoid spawning processes for some reason, you could use File::Copy duff	[reply]
Re: Line Commands In Perl by ysth (Canon) on Nov 19, 2003 at 23:41 UTC
I think Larry Wall created this as sort of a joke, but you can do: `use Shell; &cp qw( tmp/* . ); &cat qw( tmp/* ); &rm qw( -rf tmp );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]