What difference are you seeing in the files I give in the example? Are
they not identical paths?
Thanks.
Hristo Yankov wrote:
> The two examples you give are not the same? I see
> different files. Please, doublecheck.
>
> --- Tim Meader <tmeader@xxxxxxxxx> 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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