Moving Directory Trees in Win32

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

As a fairly newbie perl coder looking for enlightenment, how would you move a directory tree between drives safely? Probably a simple question, but I cannot find the answer anywhere

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Re: Moving Directory Trees in Win32 by Nitrox (Chaplain) on Oct 29, 2002 at 14:41 UTC
Take a look at Win32::FileOp. As a side note I thought I remember seeing a mv option in File::Copy. -Nitrox	[reply]
File::Copy by vek (Prior) on Oct 29, 2002 at 16:32 UTC
You are 100% correct Nitrox, there is indeed a 'mv' option in File::Copy, it's called 'move': `use File::Copy; move ("somefile", "somewhere") \|\| die "Couldn't move somefile to somew +here - $!\n";` [download] -- vek --	[reply] [d/l]