Re: Processing files in a directory

2008-11-11 Thread Susheel Koushik
of course, there are many ways to do a job in perl. Its upto the implementer to choose. -Susheel On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:40 PM, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Susheel Koushik wrote: > >> use the PERL system command. Its a wrapper for system call on your host >> OS. >> >> ex: syste

Re: Processing files in a directory

2008-11-11 Thread Susheel Koushik
Doing what you propose is possible, but would take system resources and a bit tedious. Here's an alternate solution: >From what I infer, you are processing on a file and then the code decides if its a success or a failure and your job is to remove tmp files if it fails. Here, when the processing

Re: Processing files in a directory

2008-11-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Susheel Koushik wrote: use the PERL system command. Its a wrapper for system call on your host OS. ex: system("rm *.tmp"); Why, when you can just do: unlink <*.tmp>; John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in

Re: Processing files in a directory

2008-11-10 Thread Susheel Koushik
use the PERL system command. Its a wrapper for system call on your host OS. ex: system("mv $filename $new_location/$filename"); susheel On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Susheel Koushik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > use the PERL system command. Its a wrapper for system call on your host OS. > > e

Re: Processing files in a directory

2008-11-10 Thread Susheel Koushik
use the PERL system command. Its a wrapper for system call on your host OS. ex: system("rm *.tmp"); susheel On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have around 2000 files in a directory. During processing of these > files, a temp* will b

Processing files in a directory

2008-11-10 Thread satyak...@gmail.com
Hi Everyone, I have around 2000 files in a directory. During processing of these files, a temp* will be created for each file and its removed after processing that file. If the processing is unsuccessful, temp* file still exists. Can u plz help me to write a script to automate this process using P