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Meta-0.08
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NAME

Meta::Utils::File::Move - library to help you move 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: Move.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.32

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::File::Move qw();
        Meta::Utils::File::Move::mv($file1,$file2);

DESCRIPTION

This module eases moving files around. Why should you need this ? You already have File::Copy (which this module uses). Well - what if you don't want to overwrite anything ? What if you want to throw an exception in case the move fails ? What if you don't want to do that in your code ?

FUNCTIONS

        mv($$)
        mv_noov($$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

mv($$)

This function moves a file to another and dies if it fails.

mv_noov($$)

This function moves a file to another and dies if it fails or the target file already exists.

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 introduce docbook into the baseline
        0.07 MV spelling change
        0.08 MV make lilypond work
        0.09 MV correct die usage
        0.10 MV perl code quality
        0.11 MV more perl 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 multi image viewer
        0.20 MV perl packaging
        0.21 MV md5 project
        0.22 MV database
        0.23 MV perl module versions in files
        0.24 MV movies and small fixes
        0.25 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.26 MV dbman package creation
        0.27 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.28 MV md5 project
        0.29 MV website construction
        0.30 MV web site automation
        0.31 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.32 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), File::Copy(3), strict(3)

TODO

-add a method which moves a file to a directory (and optionally makes sure that it is a directory). with overwrite and without.

-add a method that moves a file to a directory and if a file already exists there with that name changes the name until it finds a name for it. (optionally checks if the files are the same and if so does not copy ?!?).