On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:16:41AM +0100, mike wrote:
> Unfortunatel chdir does not work

In what way doesn't it work?  Are you getting an error?  How are you
verifying it doesn't work?

 
> This is the script
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -ww
> open(BLD_LIST,"buildlist");
> my @pkg=<BLD_LIST>;
> my $ver=$ARGV[2];
> my $name=$ARGV[0];
> my $release=$ARGV[1];
> foreach my $pkg (@pkg){
> my $dir1=$pkg;
> use Cwd;
> my $dir2=getcwd();
> my $dir3="$dir2/$dir1/";
> chdir $dir3 or die "cannot change";
> my $dir4=getcwd();
> print "$dir3\n"

You're missing a close brace.  Is there more code?


> the print shows the directory that I am trying to change to but chdir
> just does not work

What do you see when you print $dir4?


Michael
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