Re: I need help with the copy command

2020-05-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:40 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: Hi All, https://docs.perl6.org/routine/copy (IO::Path) routine copy Defined as: method copy(IO::Path:D: IO() $to, :$createonly --> Bool:D) sub

Re: I need help with the copy command

2020-05-01 Thread Paul Procacci
$createonly fails to do a copy when the destination file already exists. An example of shell commands to emulate this is: # echo a > test1 # echo b > test2 # cp -n test2 test1 # cat test1 a As for recursion...you probably need to write a recursive function somewhere (didn't look that hard). On F

I need help with the copy command

2020-05-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, https://docs.perl6.org/routine/copy (IO::Path) routine copy Defined as: method copy(IO::Path:D: IO() $to, :$createonly --> Bool:D) subcopy(IO() $from, IO() $to, :$createonly --> Bool:D) Copies a file. Returns True on success; fails with X::IO::Copy if :$cre