Hello all,

I'm trying to move a bunch of log files in remote share and put it in a folder that will be created based on the local time stamped (on an NT platform). When I run the script I get the following error message below. Is it because I need some sort of remote win32 module or am I using the wrong command to do this (e.g. using unix command on an nt platform).

(I would also like to have a log created containing what was done everytime the script runs, and emailed to me. for example ... x amount of Log files copied from Directory1 to Dirctory2).

I do now have enough Perl experience to add this to my script.

thank you for your help!

Error I am getting when running the script... 

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usage: posix /c <path> [<args>]
error creating \\NTSERVER\TempLogs\020910145659! at testWL.pl line 28.
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This script will move log files in a folder that will be
created based on the time stamped of the server....
#########################################################


my $filedir  = "\\\\NTSERVER\\Templogs";
my $IWlogs = "\\\\NTSERVER\\Templogs\\*.log*";

#########################################################
# get timestamp to name a file yymmddhhmiss.txt
#########################################################

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = localtime(time);
$mon = (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12)[$mon];

if($mon  < 10){$mon  = "0" . $mon;}           # add a leading zero to 
+one-digit months
if($mday < 10){$mday = "0" . $mday;}    # add a leading zero to one-di
+git days
if($hour < 10){$hour = "0" . $hour;}    # add a leading zero to one-di
+git hours
if($min  < 10){$min  = "0" . $min;}           # add a leading zero to 
+one-digit minutes
if($sec  < 10){$sec  = "0" . $sec;}            # add a leading zero to
+ one-digit seconds

$dirname  = substr($year,1,3) . $mon . $mday . $hour . $min . $sec;
$createDir = $filedir . "\\" . $dirname;

if(!-e $createDir)
{
   @args = ( "mkdir", $createDir);
   system(@args) == 0 or die "error creating $createDir!";
}

##########################################################
#move log files to new directory
##########################################################

@args = ( "move"
        , $IWlogs
        , $createDir
          )
;

system( @args ) == 0  or die "error moving $IWlogs!";

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