I guess you failed to read my admonishment to use <code> tags... Let me make sure I have this right: 
#! /usr/bin/perl
print "Hi\n";
`cp -rf /nihad /tmp/`;

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You say that 'nihad' is in 'my root directory'. The use of a possessive bothers me. Some people use 'my root dir' and 'my home dir' interchangeably. Also, since most linux installations have a /root directory (the home dir for user root), that is often what people refer to as the 'root directory'. If, indeed, the file 'nihad' is in the '/' directory, the only reason I can see for it not working is permissions. Does the user you are running the script under have read-permission for both the file 'nihad' and the directory '/'? What happens when you type this command from the shell, as the same user (without the 'f' option, so it will give you an error message if it fails)?

fnord

In reply to Re^3: Not able to use native linux commands in a perl script by Illuminatus
in thread Not able to use native linux commands in a perl script by Nihad Nizar

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