Hi please be gentle, I am very new at PERL. I am working on a script that will copy files and subdirectory within a directory into another directory on same server. I know it's weird and perhaps even dumb... but it's something I've been trying to figure out for my little site. Below are my messy code, it works, but it does not copy and replace the subdirectory files... Thanks ahead! - Meg 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#simple file replacement in perl
#looks for pages that are less than 2 min old and replaces 
#

use strict;
use File::Copy;
use File::Find;

my $age;
my $destination="/usr/local/netscape/server4/nes/publishdocs/press2/";
my $sourcedir="/usr/local/netscape/server4/nes/publishdocs/press/";

my @files=`cd $sourcedir && ls`;
my @dirlist=readdir(DIR);

# iterate and copy each one

sub cpnewest {
copy("$sourcedir$_","$destination$_"); 
}

foreach (@files, @dirlist){
chomp;
# get the age in seconds
$age = (time() - (stat($sourcedir.$_))[9]);
# if we files needs to be printed in unix
 print "\n$sourcedir.$_ is is $age seconds old\n";

if($age<120){
find(\&cpnewest, @dirlist);
}
}

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In reply to Copying all files and subdirectories from one directory to another.. by sunshine99

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