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William "Bo" RothwellBeginning Perl Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5055-6_11

11. Filesystem and Process Control

William “Bo” Rothwell1 
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Controlling the Filesystem Within Perl

Perl provides several built-in statements that allow you to control the filesystem (files and directories) while within Perl. With these statements, you can

  • Change directories

  • List files

  • Make directories

  • Remove directories

  • Remove files

  • Rename files

  • Make links (not covered in this chapter)

  • Change permissions

  • Get information regarding a file

Perl also allows you to run operating system (OS) commands from within your Perl script. Most operating systems provide commands that allow you to modify the ...

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