How do I create, move and delete files and folders?

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I would like to be able to make it so that a code can make a folder with a variable name and put certain files in it.

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Re: How do I create, move and delete files and folders? by setantae (Scribe) on Mar 27, 2000 at 03:55 UTC
You'll want to read up on mkdir, open, rename and unlink. Here's some example code. -- Ed. `mkdir 'MyDir', 0777 or die "Oops, couldn't make dir: $!"; open FILE1, '>MyDir/test1.file' or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; print FILE1 'This goes in test1.file'; close FILE1; chdir 'MyDir'; rename 'test1.file', 'MyName.txt'; unlink 'MyName.txt';` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: How do I create, move and delete files and folders?
by setantae (Scribe) on Mar 27, 2000 at 03:55 UTC

Here's some example code. -- Ed.

mkdir 'MyDir', 0777 or die "Oops, couldn't make dir: $!";

open FILE1, '>MyDir/test1.file' or die "Couldn't open file: $!";
print FILE1 'This goes in test1.file';
close FILE1;

chdir 'MyDir';
rename 'test1.file', 'MyName.txt';

unlink 'MyName.txt';
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