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12-26-2017

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Backup user folder

Hi, I have a postinstall script included in an Installer which has worked properly in the future. Now, for some reason, a part is not working. The function of the part in the script is to backup the User's folder to the desktop in order for the installed app to copy new files from the Library/Application Support to the User/Library/Application Support directory. The part of the script looks like this:

Code:

################################################################################
#
# Move user's files so app will update those files
#
################################################################################
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
$year = $year + 1900;
$mon = $mon + 1;
$timeStampString = sprintf("%04u.%02u.%02u_%02u.%02u.%02u", $year, $mon, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec);
$userFileBackupDir = $ENV{"HOME"}."/Desktop/Finale User Backup/".$PKG_RECORD_VERSION."_Backup_".$timeStampString;
foreach $relativeFilePath (@MOVE_USER_FILES_FOR_UPDATES) {
    $existingPath = $ENV{"HOME"}."/".$relativeFilePath;
    print "checking: $existingPath\n";
    if ( -e $existingPath )  {
        $backupPath = $userFileBackupDir."/".$relativeFilePath;
        makeDirAtPath_(parentDirOfPath_($backupPath));
        print "  moving: $backupPath\n";
        rename($existingPath, $backupPath);
    }
}

I can contribute the entire script if needed

Thank's
peli

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POSIX::strptime(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      POSIX::strptime(3pm)

NAME

       POSIX::strptime - Perl extension to the POSIX date parsing strptime(3) function

SYNOPSIS

	($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday) = POSIX::strptime("string", "Format");

DESCRIPTION

       Perl interface to strptime(3)

FUNCTIONS

       strptime
	    ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday) = POSIX::strptime(string, format);

	   The result for any value not extracted is not defined. Some platforms may reliably return "undef", but this is dependent on the
	   strptime(3) function in the underlying C library.

	   For example, only the following fields may be relied upon:

	    my ($min, $hour) = ( POSIX::strptime( "01:23", '%H:%M' ) )[1,2];

	    my ($mday, $mon, $year) = ( POSIX::strptime( "2010/07/16", '%Y/%m/%d' ) )[3,4,5];

	   Furthermore, not all platforms will set the $wday and $yday elements. If these values are required, use "mktime" and "gmtime":

	    use POSIX qw( mktime );
	    use POSIX::strptime qw( strptime );

	    my ($mday, $mon, $year) = ( POSIX::strptime( "2010/07/16", '%Y/%m/%d' ) )[3,4,5];
	    my $wday = ( gmtime mktime 0, 0, 0, $mday, $mon, $year )[6];

SEE ALSO

       strptime(3)

AUTHOR

       Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org> Kim Scheibel <kim@scheibel.co.uk>

REPOSITORY

       http://svn.ectoplasm.org/projects/perl/POSIX-strptime/trunk/

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005 by Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org>.

       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 v5.14.2							    2010-07-16						      POSIX::strptime(3pm)

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