Hi John, John W. Krahn wrote on 26.07.2005:
>Jan Eden wrote: >> Hi, > >Hello, > >> this does not work: >> >> mkdir "/some/dir/newsubdir" or die "$!"; > >That works for me. What error message do you get? > I get "File exists". /some/dir does exist, but newsubdir does not. >Have you tried the mkpath() function from the File::Path module? > Yes, I checked that just seconds after posting (apologies). mkpath() works for me. But I wonder why my initial example works for you. File::Path doc says: 'The "mkpath" function provides a convenient way to create directories, even if your "mkdir" kernel call won't create more than one level of directory at a time. ' But my system's mkdir does execute mkdir /some/dir/newsubdir while this does not work via Perl's mkdir function. Anyway, I will use File::Path. Thanks, Jan -- Life's unfair - but root password helps! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
