I am talking about your code Elijah! Stop taking this personally!
You are right I apologize.

Also yes I see now how I could have used splitpath as long as the full fule path was hard coded, which it is, I could grab the third element and append to a hard coded variable.

Some people change permissions on files and directories because they want to create a web interface to upload scripts to their site.
Hmm this sound familiar... LOL
Suppose they're running a different webserver on a machine where file permissions don't exist?
That's blashpeme! Bite your tounge. If they are running a webserver on a machine that has no file permissions (or at least weak ones) then this would mean more than likely they are running Windows IIS and in that case they have a lot more problem to worry about then my stupid script.

I never intended people to download my script and use it. I merely posted it originally to show how I coded it and to give people ideas on snippets of code if they wanted to write something themselves and see how I did it. This does not excuse the fact that it did have an issue, although the /tmp directory was the only other directory I was able to write to that is still a problem I was not aware of and have since fixed. I will more then likely try implementing splitpath() too to see what I like more. I generally do not like to import modules for a simple task if I can find a way to code it myself.

And yes while blah..pl is a very legal file name it would never exist on my system. I do not label files in that manner and again I did not intend on the widespread usage of this script. As I said quiet a few posts back, I am still learning and oversights are still more common than I would like them to be but it is something I am dealing with.


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