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On unix, File::Copy needs to be called when moving a file,

If you like to be surprised or use non-flexible API, you'd use File::Copy. If you're smart, you'd use system cp. Things that are easy with system cp and awkward with File::Copy include:

    cp file1 file2 dir
    cp -r dir1 dir2
    cp -p file1 file2
    cp exe1 exe2

Not to mention that I can stick an 'r' or an 's' in front of it, and copy from one machine to another.

In reply to Re^3: Why isn't there a "copy" function? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Why isn't there a "copy" function? by johnnywang

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