OK so I have a script that I run find in Perl on my Mac, but now the boss wants it on his windows server. He wants to have access to it if I am not in the office. I got ActivePerl running fine and have been able to fix most of what is alling the script, like it does the most of what it is intended to do but I can figure out why the dir command and copy command are not working. I would gladly use opendir,readdir and close dir but had much less work with them.

#!/usr/bin/perl

#macc auto format

use warnings;

use strict;

use Shell qw( perl );

use Shell qw( dir );

use Shell qw( copy );

use Shell qw( del );

use Shell qw( cd );


system( "cd d:" );

system( "dir tmp/*.txt" );

my ($file, $list, $output, $copy, $backup, $remove, $orgin);

$list = "dir tmp/*.txt";

$output = $list;

print "$list";

print "Enter File Name to be converted.\n";

print "File should be in this directory.\n";


$file = <STDIN>;

chomp($file);

$copy = copy "/perl/$file /tmp/$file ";

sleep 3;

open my $IN, "<", $file or die "can't open $file: $!";

print "Staring Edits...1.";

perl "/perl/macc1", "/tmp/$file";

sleep 2;

print ",13.\n";

perl "/perl/macc13", "/tmp/$file";

print "Edits complete.\n";

print "Do you wish to keep the edits?\n";

print "Enter Yes or No.\n";

&answer();

sub answer()

{

$backup = <STDIN>;

SWITCH: for ($backup) {

    /^(y|yes)$/i && do {

        del "/perl/$file";

        last SWITCH;

        };

    /^(n|no)$/i && do {

        copy "/perl/$file /tmp/$file", del "/perl/$file";

        last SWITCH;

        };

#$remove = del "/perl/$file";

#$orgin = copy "/perl/$file /tmp/$file";

        

    # Validate user input and return message if invalid

        print "\n\n=====================================\n";

        print "You Have Entered and Incorrect Option\n";

        print "Valid Options are [Y/N]\n";

        print "=====================================\n\n";

        &answer;
    }
}
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Thank you for any help. James734

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