On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Rob Dixon wrote:
>
> As far as I know 'rename' is atomic, so:
>
> my $number;
>
> do {
> $number++;
> my $test = "$report.$number";
> } until rename $fn, $test;
>
> HTH,
>
> Rob
My Perl book indicates that if a file with the name in $test exists, it is
destroyed and replaced. I don't want to replace an existing file. Every
other method other than sysopen seems to have this effect as well. I.e.
rename, File::Copy "move", etc.
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Maranatha!
John McKown
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