I've been using Perl for about 2 weeks. I've been in a steep learning curve, but am stumped right now. I'm on Windows...

I'm trying to successfully use File::Copy::Recursive from File-Copy-Recursive.-0.34.tar

I installed the PM correctly, as I don't get an error that the subroutine can't be found.

The function dircopy takes 2 variables, $orig and $dest for directories.

When I run it, I get an error:

"Uncaught exception from user code: Copy failed at copyfiles.pl at line 17"

Line 17 is simply the call to the function:

dircopy($orig, $dest) or die "Copy failed: $!";

The 2 variables are declared just before:

my $orig = "myOriginal";<p>
my $dest = "myNewDirectory";<p>

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I have found absolutely no help anywhere on this.

Basically, I want to simply copy a directory recursively and create a copy of it somewhere else. Is there a better module to do this? What am I missing here?

Here is the entire bit:

#!perl

use warnings;
use diagnostics;

use File::Copy;
use File::Path;
use File::Copy::Recursive qw(fcopy rcopy dircopy fmove rmove dirmove);
  
print "start\n";

my $orig = "nose";
my $dest = "nosey";

dircopy($orig, $dest) or die "Copy failed: $!";

print "done\n";

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Thanks,

Doug

In reply to File::Copy::Recursive chokes on input by dbonneville

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