Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 22:22:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org> To: Blair Schmittel <blair@strech.cyber-naut.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERL Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960127221347.9792B-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> In-Reply-To: <199601280226.TAA13207@strech.cyber-naut.com>
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On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote:
> system("mkdir $where");
why not use perl's own mkdir(directory name, permissions)
function, faster than executing the system binary and you can check the
return code more easily.
mkdir($where, 755) || die "can't make directory $where";
jmb
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