I did read that I am just learning perl. I am looking for an example for use in a pm file: ExtUtils::Command::touch test.txt Does not work as expected from inside a pm I would expect the following code to create two files in the current directory: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
package Debug;
use strict ;
use warnings ;

sub test {
use ExtUtils::Command;
 my ( $path ) = @_ ;
 my ($file, $count);
 my @files = ('test.txt','test-1.txt');
 foreach $file (@files) {
  if ($path) {$file = "$path/$file"}
  $count++;
  print "$file\n";
  ExtUtils::Command::touch $file || ($count--, print "$file not update
+d\n") ;
  }
  print "$count files updated\n";
}
1;

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If I run the command perl -MDebug -e 'Debug::test(".")' it reports no errors and no files are created EDIT oops posted wrong code --fixed

In reply to Re^6: ExtUtils::Command touch by aturtle
in thread ExtUtils::Command touch by aturtle

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