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Hi,

This script below stops and hangs after it fails to find the directory
in the following code:
chdir("/c\$/$stuff/") || die "cannot cd into /c\$/$stuff ($!)";

Here is the output it gets when it doesn't find the directory:
cannot cd into /c$/blah (No such file or directory) at ./start_blah.pl
line 12, <SCRATCHPAD> line 40.

But I don't want it to stop, I want it to proceed. How do I go about
getting that?


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "\n";
print "Starting .....\n";

open(SCRATCHPAD,"LOG.txt") or die "can't open $!";

my @uniq = <SCRATCHPAD>;

foreach my $stuff ( @uniq ) {
chomp($stuff);

chdir("/c\$/$stuff/") || die "cannot cd into /c\$/$stuff ($!)";

open(STARTUP, "/c\$/$stuff/startup |");

system('sleep 10');

}
close(STARTUP);
close(SCRATCHPAD);

On 2012-04-07 12:25, Nene <> wrote:
> This script below stops and hangs after it fails to find the directory
> in the following code:
> chdir("/c\$/$stuff/") || die "cannot cd into /c\$/$stuff ($!)";
>
> Here is the output it gets when it doesn't find the directory:
> cannot cd into /c$/blah (No such file or directory) at ./start_blah.pl
> line 12, <SCRATCHPAD> line 40.
>
> But I don't want it to stop, I want it to proceed. How do I go about
> getting that?

Look up what "die" does.

hp


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On Apr 7, 9:21*am, "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usen...@hjp.at> wrote:
> On 2012-04-07 12:25, Nene <rodbas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This script below stops and hangs after it fails to find the directory
> > in the following code:
> > chdir("/c\$/$stuff/") || die "cannot cd into /c\$/$stuff ($!)";
>
> > Here is the output it gets when it doesn't find the directory:
> > cannot cd into /c$/blah (No such file or directory) at ./start_blah.pl
> > line 12, <SCRATCHPAD> line 40.
>
> > But I don't want it to stop, I want it to proceed. *How do I go about
> > getting that?
>
> Look up what "die" does.

Thanks, I took out the "die", the script doesn't stop anymore.
>
> * * * * hp
>
> --
> * *_ *| Peter J. Holzer * *| Deprecating human carelessness and
> |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR * * * | ignorance has no successful track record.
> | | * | h...@hjp.at * * * * |
> __/ * |http://www.hjp.at/| *-- Bill Code on a...@irtf.org

Nene <> wrote:
>This script below stops and hangs after it fails to find the directory
>in the following code:
>chdir("/c\$/$stuff/") || die "cannot cd into /c\$/$stuff ($!)";
>
>But I don't want it to stop, I want it to proceed. How do I go about
>getting that?

Maybe don't tell the script to "die()"?

jue

>>>>> "Nene" == Nene <> writes:

Nene> chdir("/c\$/$stuff/") || die "cannot cd into /c\$/$stuff ($!)";

Nene> But I don't want it to stop, I want it to proceed. How do I go about
Nene> getting that?

But then it'll be in the wrong directory. The chdir() is there for a
reason, and apparently relatively mandatory, for the original author to
put the die there in the first place.

print "Just another Perl hacker,"; # the original

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Does anyone think of WARN ??