Greetings, brothers and sisters.

First of all let me humbly apologize for this question. I probably hate more asking this kind of "it's-simple-why-can't-you-see-it" question than you like answering it, but sometimes I just don't get it...

I'm developing an extremely simple app for a friend.

It's suppose to just get some files on dir1 and - if they don't exist on dir2 - copy them there.

So, here's this incredible thing: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $path1 = "C:\\foo\\dir1";
my $path2 = "C:\\foo\\dir2";

opendir DIR, $path1 || die "\n\nUnable to open $path1. Error: $!\n\n";
my @files = readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;

for (my $f = 0; $f < scalar(@files); $f++)
{
    # test to see if it's a dir
    if ($files[$f] ne "." and $files[$f] ne ".." and $files[$f] !~ /\/
+/)
    {            
        unless(-e "$path2\\$files[$f]")
        {
            exec("copy $path1\\$files[$f] $path2\\") || die "\n\nUnabl
+e to copy $files[$f]. Error: $!\n\n";
        }

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Well, in dir1 I have two files: abc.xls and abd.xls When I run the app it copies only the first file (abc.xls)! If I replace the exec() line for a simple print it works perfectly...

Can someone please explain this to me?

Thanks a lot for your patience,

my ($author_nickname, $author_email) = ("DaWolf","erabbott\@terra.com.br") if ($author_name eq "Er Galvão Abbott");

In reply to Problems executing a copy command on win32 by DaWolf

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