Re: What is going on?

[John Delacour]

All I can tell you is that it works perfectly here without my setting 
any permissions and simply adding the mkdir line to emulate your dir 
structure:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $headdir = "$ENV{HOME}/Perl/MyPerl/Virus/New Viruses/Headers";
# my $headdir = "$ENV{HOME}/Desktop";
`mkdir -p "$headdir"` ;
open EXTRACTED, ">>$headdir/ extractedFiles"
           or die "cannot open extractedFiles: $!";
print EXTRACTED "Extracting head from somefile\n";
close EXTRACTED;
JD

At 6:25 pm -0400 22/10/03, Vic Norton wrote:

 When I run the script, nothing is appended to " extractedFiles". The
 content of the file is unchanged. But its "Date modified" time has changed
 to the time when the script was run.
 If I comment out the first "my $headdir" line and uncomment the second,
 the script works just as it should. Every time it is run another line is
 appended to the " extractedFiles" file on my desktop.
 BTW, both " extractedFiles" files have the same permissions, "-rw-r--r--".