Did U chk the directory u r in try doing this
`cd $DIRECTORY; cp src dest `; Ronnie Livingston wrote: > Hi, I have a textfile with a list of gifs (ex. planet.gif, star.gif)and I > have a perl program which grabs one of the filenames randomly. What I > want to do is use the filename and copy it to random.gif but I keep > getting the error: > > cp: cannot access planet.gif > > I have been using this in my perl program: > > `cp "$line" random.gif`; > > all the gifs and perl files are in the same directory to. Am I using > correct code here? > > -Ronnie > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]