Re: help needed in File::copy

[mickeyn]

I didn't test it, but the destination file opening line in that module is:

open($to_h,"> $to\0") or goto fail_open2;

so it should override the file ...

Enjoy,
Mickey

[uva]

dear monks, copy("c:\\dir1\\text.errmsg", "c:\\dir2\\text.errmsg") || die "Can't open text.errmsg:$!"; when i ran the program, it creates the file and copied the content. next time i ran the program (destination file is existing now ) it is giving error message. Normally it should overwrite it ,but it is not happening here.. can u explain in detail??

[izut]

copy will check if the destination file exists. I don't think exists a parameter for overwrite destination file. Maybe you want this:

unlink $destfile if -f $destfile;
copy($origfile, $destfile);

Update: This is a workaround. As mickeyn said at Re: help needed in File::copy, File::Copy should overwrite destination file.