Hi! Thanks for your time, John. You solved the mystery! :) Now I shall resolve my problem!
As for that open to fork a child, I got that from Perl Cookbook 19.6 and echoed by a couple of other sources as I spent days looking and learning about ways to minimize security risks with issuing system commands. Do you disagree with that method? It looks like I am certainly missing knowledge about exiting child processes and/or returning control to the parent process? Of course, I worked on the backup as its own script in isolation and it worked. It only caused a problem when integrated with other stuff. Anyone with suggestions for further reading to learn about those aspects? I'll drop the quotes, but probably continue like rename ($newFile, $petFile); Because I find grouping the arguments makes it easier to read. My full script does include more insightful error messages in its test mode. Thank you for your comments on the rest; always something new to learn! :) Jo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
