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  • new1234
    replied to Trying to incorporate variable data in system call?
    in Perl
    I think it's because I may or may not have subdirectories that I want to make too - I caved and used
    [code=perl]
    system "mkdir -p $directory" || print $!;
    [/code]
    which works very nicely.. I'd still be interested in any alternative solutions as this seems a bit clumsy to me.
    Cheers
    p.s. i'm also struggling to remove the ./$directory that i created above (oops). Command line returns "directory:...
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    • new1234
      replied to Trying to incorporate variable data in system call?
      in Perl
      Hi, I'm actually having the same problem..
      when I run:
      Code:
      print "making directory ";
print $directory;
print "\n";

mkdir($directory,0777) ||  print $!;
      I get the output 'No such file or directory'.
      I've tried this:
      Code:
      print "making directory ";
print $directory;
print "\n";
$directory="\"".$directory."\"";
      ...
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