Re: Hard linking with Perl

You can create hard links with the builtin link function.

link( $file, $newfile ) or die $!;
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Re^2: Hard linking with Perl by astroboy (Chaplain) on Jul 21, 2005 at 21:37 UTC
Cheers guys. I take it that this means that in order to replicate "cp -al", I need to traverse the directory tree, and copy it by replicating the directory structure, and hard linking to each file in turn.	[reply]
Re^3: Hard linking with Perl by friedo (Prior) on Jul 21, 2005 at 21:41 UTC
Also check out File::Find ( or File::Finder ), File::Basename, and File::Path. They will aid you in your quest.	[reply]