I'm trying to File::Copy::move a glob of files
I tried testing for $! and get a failure message for each file when it actually succeeded!
What am i missing??

Here's a code snippet (assume the glob array is ok)
(perl 5.6.1/linux) 

# ------------------------
foreach my $f (@myGlob) {
   $!='';  # STILL complaining
   if (-l $f) { next; }
    move ($f,$RecBak) if (-f $f); 
   # failed to skip symbolic links 
   # till I said if -l $f next (why!?)
   if ($!) { print "\$!:[$!] $f FAILED! }
   else { print "$f moved" ;}
}
# ----------------------

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This succeeds in moving all and only regular files as intended, but claims to fail!!
$! is always "no such file or directory".
I'm stuck..

thanks in advance,

- manchot

In reply to File::Copy move $! is "no such file" even on success by Anonymous Monk

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