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in thread How do I copy an empty directory?

As mentioned in the original post, some directories are not empty. How would this deal with those?
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Re^3: How do I copy an empty directory?
by hominid (Priest) on Oct 03, 2012 at 02:08 UTC
    The question, smartass, was "How can I move the empty directory named "empty" at the end of the path to c:\temp for example to make c:\temp\empty?"
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      Well, what that guy said, could work, if the directory is not empty, then rmdir won't remove it, so 
      #!/usr/bin/perl --
use Path::Class::Rule;
my $source  = dir( 'x:\this\directory\name\is\empty' );
my $newdir = $dd->basename;
my $destination = dir( 'C:\temp' );

if( rmdir $dd ){
    my $newdir = dir( $destination, $newdir );
    if( mkdir $newdir ){
    } else {
        warn "Couldn't mkdir $newdir : $! $^E \n restoring $source ";
        mkdir $source or die "FAILED $! $^E";
    }
} else {
   die "Couldn't rmdir $dd : $! $^E";
}

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      Naturally this doesn't try to preserve permissions or anything like that

      File::Copy::move should also work with empty dirs

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