in reply to overwrite a file

Your problems are probably due to file permissions or something else having a lock on the file.

If you can't copy over it, then you could check for locks, sleep, and retry for a while. If you don't know or have control over the files that you're copying over, you may want to check permissions on the files first and process accordingly.

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Re^2: overwrite a file
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2005 at 23:04 UTC
    Thank you all for your responses.

    I am trying to use File::Copy command...you are probably right...I might not have permissions to change the file. If I don't have permission to change the file, I might not be able to overwrite. I'll go ahead and implement changing the permissions for the files.

    Thanks.

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