Posted by Hristo Yankov on 12/16/05 06:09

The two examples you give are not the same? I see
different files. Please, doublecheck.

--- Tim Meader <tmeader@pobox.com> wrote:

> Okay, this seems like a ridiculously easy question
> which shouldn't even
> need asking, but I'm having trouble getting the
> builtin copy command to
> work properly. It seems to work fine as long as I
> feed it a full
> constant string path for each argument (ie - in the
> form
> "/the/path/to/the/file"). However, if I try to feed
> it two variables as
> the arguments, it craps out somewhere along the
> line. Here are the two
> different sets of calls I'm making:
>
> These two work perfectly:
>
>
copy("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline",
>
"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline.bak")
> ;
>
copy("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp",
>
"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp.bak");
>
> These two fail:
>
> $l_stLastRun =
>
"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/lastrun.timestamp";
> $l_stSnapshotBase =
>
"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/ipreg2/crons/regservice_rep/snapshot.baseline";
>
> copy($l_stSnapshotBase, $l_stSnapshotBase.".bak");
> copy($l_stLastRun, $l_stLastRun.".bak");
>
> Can anyone offer any insight on what the problem
> might be with this? The
> "unlink" function seems to accept the variable
> inputs with absolutely no
> problem, so I can't understand the discrepancy
> between the two.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tim
>
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Hristo Yankov, Developer at Portellus, Inc.
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