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# 8  
Old 05-28-2006
i included this line in the beginnining of my script.
Code:
use SHELL qw(mv);
mv ( $oldfile, $newfile);

# 9  
Old 05-28-2006
I would like to remind you of a warning that has been in the documentation concerning the "Shell" module:

http://perldoc.perl.org/Shell.html

Quote:
This package is included as a show case, illustrating a few Perl features. It shouldn't be used for production programs. Although it does provide a simple interface for obtaining the standard output of arbitrary commands, there may be better ways of achieving what you need.

...

Since Shell.pm and all of the aforementioned techniques use your system's shell to call some local command, none of them is portable across different systems. Note, however, that there are several built in functions and library packages providing portable implementations of functions operating on files, such as: glob, link and unlink, mkdir and rmdir, rename, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::Find etc.
That's why the File::Copy module came to my mind instead of Shell.
# 10  
Old 05-28-2006
Hi cbkihong,

thanks for the reminder. I overlooked the portability issue. i think i'll use the below code instead.
Code:
use File::Copy;
move("$old","$new") or print "$!";

Appreciated your help. thanks again.
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