Fellow monks
I am stumped and am in need of your help. I have a script that will look at a file on two machines, get the stats of it using File::stat and compare the size and mtime to. This works. see here:

# Ray Espinoza
# FileCompare.pl
# 2/06/02
# This script will compare a file on two different machines
##################################################################

use File::stat qw(:FIELDS);

my($file, $host1, $host2, $path1, $path2);

print "Enter the filename and path which it resides, minus the hostnam
+e..etc. /d$/ebayconfig/confighosts.txt ..";
print "\n" . "***make sure to use / instead of \ please*********";
chomp($file = <STDIN>);
print "Enter the first hostname of the machine you want to compare. ";
chomp($host1 = <STDIN>);
print "Enter the other host that you want to check file properites. ";
chomp($host2 = <STDIN>);

$path1 = "//" . $host1 . $file;
$path2 = "//" . $host2 . $file;


    $stat = stat($path1) or die "No File :$!";
    if ($st_size  & $st_mtime) {
        $size1 = $st_size;
        $mtime1 = $st_mtime;
        
        }
        
        $stat = stat($path2) or die "No File :$!";
            if ($st_size  & $st_mtime) {
                $size2 = $st_size;
                $mtime2 = $st_mtime;
                
        }
        
        if ($size1 == $size2) {
            print "File size matches.\n";
            }else{
                print "$path1 and $path2 have different sizes!\n";
                }
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I am writing a new script that will create get a directory list of a machine and create a hash of hashes storing the filename as the key and the value variables (size and mtime) as referances. In my code, i have not even got that far because i am not able to "stat" the file as it loops through the directory. It says no such file or directory. I am printing the whole string to see if there is a problem with the directory syntax. Can some one please help. I may be looking to hard at the same code.

#!D:/perl/bin

use strict;
use File::stat qw(:FIELDS);

my ($goodDir, $path, $host1, $host2, $checkDir, $currentFile, $current
+File1, $st_size, $st_mtime, $stat, $size, $modtime);
my %hashDir1 =();


print "What host would you like to use as template: ?\n";
chomp($host1 = <STDIN>);

print "Whats the path you want to use? \n";
chomp($path = <STDIN>);
$goodDir = "//" . $host1 . $path;
print $goodDir . "\n";
opendir(GD, $goodDir) or die "Can't open $goodDir : $!";

print "what host would you like to examine? \n";
chomp($host2 = <STDIN>);
$checkDir = "//" . $host2 . $path;
opendir(CD, $checkDir) or die "Can't open $checkDir : $!";

while($currentFile = readdir(GD)) {
    
    $currentFile1 = "//" . $host1 . $path . $currentFile . "\n";
    print $currentFile1 . "\n";
    stat($currentFile1) or warn "No File :$!");
    #$stat = stat($currentFile1) or warn "can't stat the file :$!\n";
    if ( $st_size  & $st_mtime) {
        $size = $st_size;
        $modtime = $st_mtime;
        }else{
        print "couldn't stat $currentFile1 : $!";
        next;
    }

}
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here are a screen shot when i run the script:

C:\scripts\perl>betacompare.pl
What host would you like to use as template: ?
adams
Whats the path you want to use?
/d$/prod/perl/debug/
//adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/
what host would you like to examine?
jefferson
//adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/.

No File : at C:\scripts\perl\betaCompare.pl line 28, <STDIN> line 3.
couldn't stat //adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/.
 : //adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/..

No File :No such file or directory at C:\scripts\perl\betaCompare.pl l
+ine 28, <S
TDIN> line 3.
couldn't stat //adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/..
 : No such file or directory//adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/bugslayerutil.d
+ll

No File :No such file or directory at C:\scripts\perl\betaCompare.pl l
+ine 28, <S
TDIN> line 3.
couldn't stat //adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/bugslayerutil.dll
 : No such file or directory//adams/d$/prod/perl/debug/bugslayerutil.p
+db
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Thnx in advance.
Ray