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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl copy vs system cp Post 302383884 by m1xram on Friday 1st of January 2010 02:35:52 PM
Old 01-01-2010
spaces

The one thing I can see from your example is that the system call won't work if the files have spaces in the names but File::Copy will. That could easily be fixed but it is something you have to take into account.

Staying within Perl will probably mean that another process is not forked. The 'system' call always forks another process. That can be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on the behaviour you desire. For instance, if you wanted to copy ten files but didn't wish to wait for completion, the 'cp's could be forked asynchronously.
 

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IO::All::HTTP(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					IO::All::HTTP(3pm)

NAME
IO::All::LWP - Extends IO::All to HTTP URLs SYNOPSIS
use IO::All; $content < io('http://example.org'); # GET webpage into scalar io('http://example.org') > io('index.html'); # GET to file "hello " > io('http://example.org/index.html'); # PUT webpage # two ways of getting a page with a password: $content < io('http://me:secret@example.org'); $content < io('http://example.org')->user('me')->password('secret'); DESCRIPTION
This module extends IO::All for dealing with HTTP URLs. Note that you don't need to use it explicitly, as it is autoloaded by IO::All whenever it sees something that looks like an HTTP URL. The SYNOPSIS shows some simple typical examples, but there are many other interesting combinations with other IO::All features! For example, you can get an HTTP URL and write the content to a socket, or to an FTP URL, of to a DBM file. METHODS
This is a subclass of IO::All::LWP. The only new method is "http", which can be used to create a blank IO::All::HTTP object; or it can also take an HTTP URL as a parameter. Note that in most cases it is simpler just to call io('http://example.com'), which calls the "http" method automatically. OPERATOR OVERLOADING
The same operators from IO::All may be used. < GETs an HTTP URL; > PUTs to an HTTP URL. SEE ALSO
IO::All, IO::All::LWP, LWP. AUTHORS
Ivan Tubert-Brohman <itub@cpan.org> and Brian Ingerson <ingy@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007. Ivan Tubert-Brohman and Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> perl v5.10.0 2007-03-29 IO::All::HTTP(3pm)
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