I understand completely. I see now that my statement could have been interpreted a little harsher than I ever intended. It wasn't really a bash on solid modules at all. It was more of a personal complaint that the language didn't have built in functions as simple as deleting/copying/moving a folder recursively. I do thank you for your input. I also updated the dir_del. Found a bug in it lol. I am working on a small package of subs that will allow all file/folder copy/move/delete from all perl built-ins. Once again, mostly for fun and to see it be done. Nothing against modules as a whole. I think they're great and I have had the pleasure of using quite a few thus far. I've also had the displeasure of dealing with broken ones that don't build and having to make native workarounds like this...I sort of think it's fun. I never intended to offend anyone and yes I am new on here and "relatively" newish to perl I would say. Very strong Bash,BASIC,HTML,*nix administration/networking background so picking up on the basics of Perl was pretty easy for me but I admit I am still learning some of the do's and do not's. I appreciate honest critics as to learn properly. Even if I do throw something out there prematurely or just plain awful when viewed from a veteran :P

In reply to Re^3: Copy folders by SM177Y
in thread Copy folders by avik1612

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