Hello all-knowing monks,

Please help me out by explaining the following...

use strict;
use File::Copy;

my $PPath=($ENV{Project});
my $LogPath=("$PPath/midnight_reset/log");
my $CPath=($ENV{CONFIG_DIR});
$CPath=~s/\\/\//g;
my $file;

my $logpath=("$CPath/Agents/log");
opendir (DIR, $logpath) || die "Cannot open dir $logpath: $!";
my @files=grep(/\.log$/i, readdir (DIR));
foreach $file (@files) {
        unless (copy ("$logpath/$file", "$logpath/$file.old")) {
            print "Fail to rename $file\n";
        }
}
closedir (DIR);

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As you can see from above, I'm trying to back up log files to *.old. In the section where I do the copy, I had tried using 'rename' and it failed. I then tried File::Copy and used 'move' and it also failed.

I have now got it working, but was wondering if somebody could help me by explaining why the others did not work?

I'm not sure if it matters, but this is running on Win32.

Thanks!!

In reply to rename and move fail? by Smaug

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