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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Basic problem Post 302212665 by ramesh54 on Tuesday 8th of July 2008 05:27:46 AM
Old 07-08-2008
Basic problem

Hello Friends,

I am learning Perl now. I have a small query.

I have a directory Z with file name Z.txt.
I would like to copy this file Z.txt to 3 new dir with new filenames as follows
dir 1 1.txt
dir 2 2.txt
dir 3 3.txt

I would like to then open 1.txt from dir 1 and edit the first 4 lines and it
would be better if the program can ask me what to enter in these lines. I need to do the same for all the directories.

For eg: I have a line as follows.
x y Z
10 11 12

Th program should ask me what to enter for Y value. So when the program asks, Igive it a new value.

I have tried the following and I guess there is a much shorter way to do this

#!/usr/bin/perl
open FILE, "z.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {
print $_;
}
mkdir("1", 0777) || print $!;
copy("z.txt","1.txt") or die "Copy failed: $!";
move("1.txt","/home/privat/temp/PerlWD/1");
mkdir("2", 0777) || print $!;
copy("z.txt","2.txt") or die "Copy failed: $!";
move("2.txt","/home/privat/temp/PerlWD/2");
mkdir("3", 0777) || print $!;
copy("z.txt","3.txt") or die "Copy failed: $!";
move("3.txt","/home/privat/temp/PerlWD/3");
print " -Done";
exit;

I am not sure how to edit the file and then save it in the respective file name.

Looking forward to your response.

Regards,
Ramesh
 

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MasonX::ProcessDir(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   MasonX::ProcessDir(3pm)

NAME
MasonX::ProcessDir - Process a directory of Mason 2 templates VERSION
version 0.02 SYNOPSIS
use MasonX::ProcessDir; # Generate result files in the same directory as the templates # my $pd = MasonX::ProcessDir->new( dir => '/path/to/dir' ); $pd->process_dir(); # Generate result files in a separate directory # my $pd = MasonX::ProcessDir->new( source_dir => '/path/to/source/dir', dest_dir => '/path/to/dest/dir' ); $pd->process_dir(); DESCRIPTION
Recursively processes a directory of Mason 2 templates, generating a set of result files in the same directory or in a parallel directory. Every file with suffix ".mc" will be processed, and the results placed in a file of the same name without the suffix. ".mi", autobase and dhandler files will be used by Mason when processing the templates but will not generate files themselves. For example, if the source directory contains Base.mc httpd.conf.mc proxy.conf.mc etc/crontab.mc blah.mi somefile.txt and we run my $pd = MasonX::ProcessDir->new( source_dir => '/path/to/source/dir', dest_dir => '/path/to/dest/dir' ); $pd->process_dir(); then afterwards the destination directory will contain files httpd.conf proxy.conf etc/crontab somefile.txt where foo and bar are the results of processing foo.mc and bar.mc through Mason. Base.mc and blah.mi may be used during Mason processing but won't generate result files themselves. This class is a convenience extension of Any::Template::ProcessDir. CONSTRUCTOR
Specifying directory/directories o If you want to generate the result files in the same directory as the templates, just specify dir. my $pd = MasonX::ProcessDir->new( dir => '/path/to/dir', ... ); o If you want to generate the result files in a separate directory from the templates, specify source_dir and dest_dir. my $pd = MasonX::ProcessDir->new( source_dir => '/path/to/source/dir', source_dir => '/path/to/dest/dir', ... ); Mason options mason_options An optional hash of options to the Mason interpreter. For example, the default Mason data directory will be ".mason" under the source directory, but you can override this: mason_options => { data_dir => '/path/to/data/dir' } Options inherited from Any::Template::ProcessDir See Any::Template::ProcessDir for other options, such as dir_create_mode file_create_mode readme_filename SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
Bugs and feature requests will be tracked at RT: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=MasonX-ProcessDir bug-masonx-processdir@rt.cpan.org The latest source code can be browsed and fetched at: http://github.com/jonswar/perl-masonx-processdir git clone git://github.com/jonswar/perl-masonx-processdir.git SEE ALSO
Mason, Any::Template::ProcessDir AUTHOR
Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Jonathan Swartz. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-07 MasonX::ProcessDir(3pm)
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