On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:10:25 -0600 "Martin G. McCormick" <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote: > I keep getting the "Usage" help message and a > permission denied. If I su to root and manually make the move, > it works.
change "system" to "print" to print out the command that would be run, and (a) you'll likely see the problem, or (b) you can try running that exact command. > system( > "mv $directories$filename \"$directories\"deleted_keys/" > ); I doubt you meant that extraneous \" in the middle there - I suspect you meant \"$directories/deleted_keys\". Oh, and make sure that the variables you're interpolating there aren't from an untrusted source :) Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/