After being informed about the File::Copy module, I started
exploring a bit. Since these perl modules have man pages, the
apropos command is extremely handy. I tried
apropos File::
and found a list of several utilities in that suite which one
can then man File::X to learn more about what is there
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:47:29 -0600
"Martin G. McCormick" wrote:
> David Precious writes:
> > change "system" to "print" to print out the command that would be
> > run,
>
> Great suggestion! I actually did try that using echo instead of
> print so that system was still involved and the values w
This is a classic example of the admonition, "Never trust data."
I did try the following:
David Precious writes:
> change "system" to "print" to print out the command that would be run,
> and (a) you'll likely see the problem, or (b) you can try running that
> exact command.
"Ron Bergin" writes:
> As has already been mentioned, part of the problem is your quoting.
>
> What is the value of $directories and more specifically, does it end with
> a forward slash? Personally, I prefer to leave off the trailing dir
> separator because IMO it makes it more clear later when
David Precious writes:
> change "system" to "print" to print out the command that would be run,
Great suggestion! I actually did try that using echo instead of
print so that system was still involved and the values were
correct. It looked beautiful.
> and (a) you'll likely see the problem, or (b)
Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> I have a perl script that I run as root which needs to
> move a file from where it is to another directory.
>
> I keep getting the "Usage" help message and a
> permission denied. If I su to root and manually make the move,
> it works.
>
> The perl scr
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Martin G. McCormick <
mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
> I have a perl script that I run as root which needs to
> move a file from where it is to another directory.
>
> I keep getting the "Usage" help message and a
> permission denied. If I su
Is the directory you are moving to writable?
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> On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:10 PM, "Martin G. McCormick"
> wrote:
>
>I have a perl script that I run as root which needs to
> move a file from where it is to another directory.
>
>I keep getting the "Usage" help message and a
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:10:25 -0600
"Martin G. McCormick" wrote:
> I keep getting the "Usage" help message and a
> permission denied. If I su to root and manually make the move,
> it works.
change "system" to "print" to print out the command that would be run,
and (a) you'll likely see the
I have a perl script that I run as root which needs to
move a file from where it is to another directory.
I keep getting the "Usage" help message and a
permission denied. If I su to root and manually make the move,
it works.
The perl script is not trying to run suid to ro
On Jan 27, 2014, at 11:32 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi all,
> often I find myself writing something like the following to get the
> "human" date:
>
> my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime())[3..5];
> $month++, $year += 1900;
> print "\nToday is $month / $day / $year \n";
>
>
> I was wondering
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