Move using File::Find

grashoper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I can't figure out whats wrong with my move file, it seems to want to start in the root of c and I cannot seem to make it not start there. so I was going to try using file:find, I came up with this but of course it doesn't work because perl absolutely hates me and I am still a perltard. this dies with an invalid top directory in line 593. the current directory is not a top level directory though its in c:\inetpub\performancetesting\output\mlx which is where I want the file:find to start recursively moving files from and I want them put into a tree that is exactly the same below c:\\mlx so I am basically trying to move the whole directory tree to another location. please someone help me with either file my previous post I will add a link for on the next update.

 
@ARGV = qw(.) unless @ARGV;
use File::Find;
use File::Copy;
use Data::Dumper;

@dirs=();
my $dir="\\mlx\\";
find sub {move("$File::Find::name, -d","$dir.$_") or die "This didn't 
+work either"};
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my previous attempt which is now giving me an error due to the path. //760926 not sure if this link will work. link does not work. from the book I was reading I thought -d was directory, example.. ok I fixed the problem with the move it was due to the directory I was calling it from, I was using a batch file, needed to do a chdir to the correct path apparently the script was looking at the current location, anyways I have it working now.

 
@ARGV = qw(.) unless @ARGV;
use File::Find;
find sub { print $File::Find::name, -d && "/", "\n" }, @ARGV;
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Re: Move using File::Find by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 30, 2009 at 20:44 UTC
This line: `move("$File::Find::name, -d","$dir.$_")` [download] will try to move (for example) a file named `foo.bar, -d` to a file `\mlx\foo.bar, -d`. Are you really sure that you have files that have `, -d` at the end of their filename? Also, File::Find::find wants some directories to search, so you should give it some.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Move using File::Find by Anonymous Monk on Apr 30, 2009 at 22:07 UTC
Its good that you've added error checking, but you need to do better. Something like `my (@useful) = ( "$File::Find::name, -d", "$dir.$_" ); move(@useful) or die "ERROR: move(", map( {qq"($_)"} @useful ), ") failed: $!";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]