Jan Eden wrote: > > John W. Krahn wrote on 26.07.2005: > >>Jan Eden wrote: >> >>>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.
The message "File exists" means that the file /some/dir/newsubdir already exists when mkdir tried to create it. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>