Hi , I want to copy the contents of a file say "tmp" to another file say "LOG" if a certain condition matches. It works great but the problem is everytime the condition is evaluated "true" it overwrites the complete LOG instead of appending tmp to LOG. Is there any way i can overcome this. I am aware that i can assign a handle to tmp and then append using >> operator and read file using while loop and then print it to the "LOG" or do it using foreach ()after dumping everything into an array. BUT I WANT MY CODE TO BE ROBUST OR HAVE OTHER SIMPLE WAY TO DO IT RATHER THAN doing it in the above described way... Any sugestions ?? copy("tmp","LOG") or die "Copy failed: $!"; Can this be manipulated in a line or two rather than using file handles AND WHILE/foreach LOOP and print ? And also I tried to used cat ("tmp >> LOG") isntead of copy but nothing is copied from tmp to LOG after execution.. -Thanks Ram

In reply to Is there a way to avoid copy function from overwriting old contents? by justkar4u

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