Tom Messmer am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 17:02: > Hello everyone, Hello Tom
> Just joined this list and I have a doozie I've been working on for a > bit here to no avail. The entire problem is this; I have a list of > files, say that they are named "flynn.foo, flynn_something.foo, > flaherty.foo flaherty_something.foo" and so forth. Each of these > files must live(be moved to) an individual directory named for the > author(flynn, flaherty, etc) and then be symlinked to an entirely > different directory in another part of the filesystem identical to > the first one(flynn, flaherty...) If I was doing this on the command > line I'd do > > cp /usr/blah/flaherty.foo /usr/blah/blahagain/flaherty/ && > ln -s /usr/blah/blahagain/flaherty/flaherty.foo /usr/blah/ > blahoncemore/flaherty.foo Can you post what you have so far? > So far I've gotten to the point where I can strip out the names > from the files and create the two sets of directories, but I'm > stumped on how to them copy each of these files into the correct > directory perldoc -f cp > and then symlink from the storage directory to the other > name directory. perldoc -f symlink > Now I know how to copy files and symlink files with > perl, > but the logic involved in doing this to 30 files is beyond me > at the moment. Anyone have a clue? perldoc -f foreach Dani -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/