On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:47:29 -0600 "Martin G. McCormick" <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
> David Precious writes: > > change "system" to "print" to print out the command that would be > > run, > > Great suggestion! I actually did try that using echo instead of > print so that system was still involved and the values were > correct. It looked beautiful. Well, this is a bit redundant since you solved it but try replacing the "echo" with "ls" and then "ls -l". The first replacement is to test to see if the directory is readable, the second, to see if its i-node is readable. -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/