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I thought there is a way to put the print command directly into the copy command, but I could be wrong. I thought someone should me how to do that.
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Re^3: print copy source and destination
by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 01, 2008 at 23:13 UTC

    What do you actually want printed? Print and copy are orthogonal operations - I don't understand how it makes sense to "put the print command directly into the copy command" unless you mean to modify the copy sub to print its parameters.

    if you want a modified copy sub you could:

    sub myCopy {
    my ($source, $target) = @_;

    print "Copying from $source to $target\n");
    return ©
}

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