$sftp->mkdir("/$server_dir")   or warn "mkdir1 failed $!\n";
$sftp->mkdir("/$image_dir")        or warn "mkdir2 failed $!\n";

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Now for the questions. I'm looking for a way to make the failure of mkdir more informative for the case that the directory already exists. I keep the mkdir line so that it will work the first time it is used. Every subsequent time, it fails, and $! is stone silent. This module is on github at html7.pm.

The mkdir you are using here is not the build-in mkdir. The latter sets $! on error (and perhaps $^E). The former one is a method of some SFTP object that could do the same, but probably has a different error mechanism.

The code on github currently uses Net::SFTP::Foreign, and as already explained, it requires to check $sftp->error() instead of $!. You could also get rid of manual error checking by using autodie mode, much like in DBI.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: using online translation engines with perl by afoken
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