test610.pl   [plain text]

#!/usr/bin/env perl
# Perform simple file and directory manipulation in a portable way
if ( $#ARGV <= 0 ) 
{
	print "Usage: $0 mkdir|rmdir|rm|move|gone path1 [path2] [more commands...]\n";
	exit 1;
}

use File::Copy;
while(@ARGV) {
	my $cmd = shift @ARGV;
	my $arg = shift @ARGV;
	if ($cmd eq "mkdir") {
		mkdir $arg || die "$!";
	}
	elsif ($cmd eq "rmdir") {
		rmdir $arg || die "$!";
	}
	elsif ($cmd eq "rm") {
		unlink $arg || die "$!";
	}
	elsif ($cmd eq "move") {
		my $arg2 = shift @ARGV;
		move($arg,$arg2) || die "$!";
	}
	elsif ($cmd eq "gone") {
		! -e $arg || die "Path $arg exists";
	} else {
		print "Unsupported command $cmd\n";
		exit 1;
	}
}
exit 0;