$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 Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:40 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < 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 copy(IO() $from, IO() $to, :$createonly --> Bool:D) > > Copies a file. Returns True on success; fails with > X::IO::Copy if :$createonly is True and the $to path > already exists or if the operation failed for some > other reason, such as when $to and $from are the same > file. > > Huh? > > 1) what exactly is `:$createonly`? > > 2) is there some other command for recurse and create? > > cp -Rip source destination > > > Many thanks, > -T > -- __________________ :(){ :|:& };:
