NAME

Meta::Utils::File::Copy - library to help you copy files.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Copy.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.31

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Utils::File::Copy qw();
Meta::Utils::File::Copy::copy($file1,$file2);

DESCRIPTION

This module eases the case for copying files.

FUNCTIONS

copy($$)
syscopy($$)
copy_unlink($$)
syscopy_unlink($$)
copy_mkdir($$)
syscopy_mkdir($$)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

copy($$)

This function copies a file to another and dies if it cannot succeed.

syscopy($$)

This function does the same work as copy but preserves file permissions and other attributes.

copy_unlink($$)

This function assumes that the target file exists, unlinks it, and then copies the source to the target

syscopy_unlink($$)

This function does the same work as copy_unlink but preserves file permissions and other attributes.

copy_mkdir($$)

This function copies one file to another and creates the directory if neccessary. More than one hierarchy of directories can be created...

syscopy_mkdir($$)

This function does the same work as copy_mkdir but preserves file permissions and other attributes.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV initial code brought in
0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
0.02 MV more perl checks
0.03 MV make Meta::Utils::Opts object oriented
0.04 MV check that all uses have qw
0.05 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
0.06 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
0.07 MV spelling change
0.08 MV correct die usage
0.09 MV perl code quality
0.10 MV more perl quality
0.11 MV chess and code quality
0.12 MV more perl quality
0.13 MV perl documentation
0.14 MV more perl quality
0.15 MV perl qulity code
0.16 MV more perl code quality
0.17 MV revision change
0.18 MV languages.pl test online
0.19 MV more on images
0.20 MV perl packaging
0.21 MV fix database problems
0.22 MV md5 project
0.23 MV database
0.24 MV perl module versions in files
0.25 MV movies and small fixes
0.26 MV thumbnail user interface
0.27 MV more thumbnail issues
0.28 MV website construction
0.29 MV web site automation
0.30 MV SEE ALSO section fix
0.31 MV web site development

SEE ALSO

File::Basename(3), File::Copy(3), File::Path(3), Meta::Utils::File::Remove(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.