Re^2: chdir: failure

Building on the above suggestions:

$DATE = `date +%Y-%m-%d`;
chomp $DATE;
$CURRDIR = '/home/'.$USER.'/'.$DATE;
chdir ($CURRDIR) || die "Couldn't change to $CURRDIR Reason: $!";
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You most likely will find that you are not pulling $USER into the directory line.

-sh-3.1$ perl chdirtest.pl
Couldn't change to /home//2007-07-17 Reason: No such file or directory
+ at chdirtest.pl line 4.
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Try assigning $USER, perhaps using get_login();

$DATE = `date +%Y-%m-%d`;
chomp $DATE;
my $USER=getlogin();
$CURRDIR = '/home/'.$USER.'/'.$DATE;
chdir ($CURRDIR) || die "Couldn't change to $CURRDIR Reason: $!";
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Re^3: chdir: failure by PerlMe (Novice) on Jul 17, 2007 at 19:16 UTC
Thanks all, It works now. The problem was $date string terminated with a new-line "\n". I appreciate all the comments on '$user', '$!' and 'chomp'. Rami	[reply]