Creating a directory with mkdir

[Merowingian]

Hi guys,

I'm actually using perl for simple, non-web based programming.

I'm writing a "radio" script that should create a directory using:

mkdir "/home/marvin/Multimedia/MP3s/Radio/PROBE", 0700;

but I'm getting the following error:

Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at /home/marvin/bin/radio line 128

I've tried Google, but I only got some MySQL related answers, I'm not using MySQL.

What's the problem? I've already checked the ACLs of that directory, they are all right.

Btw, I'm using the cygwin version of perl on cygwin.

Thanks

Merowingian

[ALL]

ummm... i havent worked with perl in a while, but i think this may be worth mentioning...

when you are setting something to a static name (ie: something that doesnt change unless changed manually), you should always use single quotes rather than double quotes to avoide confusion.

If i had to guess, i would say that perl is treating everything in the double quotes as a regular expression (but i dont believe it should be doing that).

Try chaneing those to a single quote, and if that doesnt work, try using chdir() function to change the current working directory first, then just use the directory you are freating's name insted of trying to point all the way down the line.

but honestly it should work from what i remember of perl,
-ALL

[Merowingian]

Nope, sorry, that didn't help.

But what's the usual cause of this "couldn't stat filename" problem?

[Merowingian]

I'm still having the same problem. Any solutions?

[DeadMeatGF]

I've not got a solution, mainly 'cos I don't use PERL, but all the references I can find suggest it's a problem with your language settings - and the reference to a "newline" suggest to me that it's reading something as an escaped character.

[JamesonLewis3rd]

Have you seen this?
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~svhwan/prodScript/avoidPwdFindMkdir.html#sec3