Re^2: Move a file to another directory based on regex match

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In fact, the documentation about readdir mentions the fact that you need to prepend the directory again.

Just in the (very unlikely) case that the files actually exist, the error message suggests that the OP is trying to move them across mount points. This would happen for example if you have two disks mounted below /mount:

  /mount/hda/dir1
  /mount/hdb/dir2
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Then, moving files from /mount/hda/dir1 to /mount/hdb/dir2 would mean actually copying the bytes between the two devices. At least the mv program (and thus, maybe also the rename() syscall?) on my Debian system does such copying nowadays...

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Re^3: Move a file to another directory based on regex match by haukex (Archbishop) on Feb 25, 2021 at 15:25 UTC
actually copying the bytes between the two devices. At least the mv program (and thus, maybe also the rename() syscall?) on my Debian system does such copying nowadays... It's a good thing OP is using File::Copy, since that actually does copy the bytes (and only when necessary, AFAIK) - I belive this is what the OS's `mv` does too. I just tried rename across filesystems and did in fact get the `Invalid cross-device link` error.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Move a file to another directory based on regex match by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 25, 2021 at 17:12 UTC
So maybe the detection of the sameness of the device doesn't work correctly in MSWin? `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]

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