# File/Copy.pm. Written in 1994 by Aaron Sherman . This # source code has been placed in the public domain by the author. # Please be kind and preserve the documentation. # package File::Copy; require Exporter; use Carp; @ISA=qw(Exporter); @EXPORT=qw(copy); @EXPORT_OK=qw(copy cp); $File::Copy::VERSION = '1.5'; $File::Copy::Too_Big = 1024 * 1024 * 2; sub VERSION { # Version of File::Copy return $File::Copy::VERSION; } sub copy { croak("Usage: copy( file1, file2 [, buffersize]) ") unless(@_ == 2 || @_ == 3); if (($^O eq 'VMS' or $^O eq 'os2') && ref(\$to) ne 'GLOB' && !(defined ref $to and (ref($to) eq 'GLOB' || ref($to) eq 'FileHandle' || ref($to) eq 'VMS::Stdio'))) { return File::Copy::syscopy($_[0],$_[1]) } my $from = shift; my $to = shift; my $closefrom=0; my $closeto=0; my ($size, $status, $r, $buf); local(*FROM, *TO); local($\) = ''; if (ref(\$from) eq 'GLOB') { *FROM = $from; } elsif (defined ref $from and (ref($from) eq 'GLOB' || ref($from) eq 'FileHandle' || ref($from) eq 'VMS::Stdio')) { *FROM = *$from; } else { open(FROM,"<$from")||goto(fail_open1); binmode FROM; $closefrom = 1; } if (ref(\$to) eq 'GLOB') { *TO = $to; } elsif (defined ref $to and (ref($to) eq 'GLOB' || ref($to) eq 'FileHandle' || ref($to) eq 'VMS::Stdio')) { *TO = *$to; } else { open(TO,">$to")||goto(fail_open2); binmode TO; $closeto=1; } if (@_) { $size = shift(@_) + 0; croak("Bad buffer size for copy: $size\n") unless ($size > 0); } else { $size = -s FROM; $size = 1024 if ($size < 512); $size = $File::Copy::Too_Big if ($size > $File::Copy::Too_Big); } $buf = ''; while(defined($r = read(FROM,$buf,$size)) && $r > 0) { if (syswrite (TO,$buf,$r) != $r) { goto fail_inner; } } goto fail_inner unless(defined($r)); close(TO) || goto fail_open2 if $closeto; close(FROM) || goto fail_open1 if $closefrom; # Use this idiom to avoid uninitialized value warning. return 1; # All of these contortions try to preserve error messages... fail_inner: if ($closeto) { $status = $!; $! = 0; close TO; $! = $status unless $!; } fail_open2: if ($closefrom) { $status = $!; $! = 0; close FROM; $! = $status unless $!; } fail_open1: return 0; } *cp = \© # &syscopy is an XSUB under OS/2 *syscopy = ($^O eq 'VMS' ? \&rmscopy : \©) unless $^O eq 'os2'; 1; __END__ =head1 NAME File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles =head1 SYNOPSIS use File::Copy; copy("file1","file2"); copy("Copy.pm",\*STDOUT);' use POSIX; use File::Copy cp; $n=FileHandle->new("/dev/null","r"); cp($n,"x");' =head1 DESCRIPTION The File::Copy module provides a basic function C which takes two parameters: a file to copy from and a file to copy to. Either argument may be a string, a FileHandle reference or a FileHandle glob. Obviously, if the first argument is a filehandle of some sort, it will be read from, and if it is a file I it will be opened for reading. Likewise, the second argument will be written to (and created if need be). Note that passing in files as handles instead of names may lead to loss of information on some operating systems; it is recommended that you use file names whenever possible. An optional third parameter can be used to specify the buffer size used for copying. This is the number of bytes from the first file, that wil be held in memory at any given time, before being written to the second file. The default buffer size depends upon the file, but will generally be the whole file (up to 2Mb), or 1k for filehandles that do not reference files (eg. sockets). You may use the syntax C to get at the "cp" alias for this function. The syntax is I the same. File::Copy also provides the C routine, which copies the file specified in the first parameter to the file specified in the second parameter, preserving OS-specific attributes and file structure. For Unix systems, this is equivalent to the simple C routine. For VMS systems, this calls the C routine (see below). For OS/2 systems, this calls the C XSUB directly. =head2 Special behavior under VMS If the second argument to C is not a file handle for an already opened file, then C will perform an RMS copy of the input file to a new output file, in order to preserve file attributes, indexed file structure, I The buffer size parameter is ignored. If the second argument to C is a Perl handle to an opened file, then data is copied using Perl operators, and no effort is made to preserve file attributes or record structure. The RMS copy routine may also be called directly under VMS as C (or C, which is just an alias for this routine). =item rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag]) The first and second arguments may be strings, typeglobs, or typeglob references; they are used in all cases to obtain the I of the input and output files, respectively. The name and type of the input file are used as defaults for the output file, if necessary. A new version of the output file is always created, which inherits the structure and RMS attributes of the input file, except for owner and protections (and possibly timestamps; see below). All data from the input file is copied to the output file; if either of the first two parameters to C is a file handle, its position is unchanged. (Note that this means a file handle pointing to the output file will be associated with an old version of that file after C returns, not the newly created version.) The third parameter is an integer flag, which tells C how to handle timestamps. If it is E 0, none of the input file's timestamps are propagated to the output file. If it is E 0, then it is interpreted as a bitmask: if bit 0 (the LSB) is set, then timestamps other than the revision date are propagated; if bit 1 is set, the revision date is propagated. If the third parameter to C is 0, then it behaves much like the DCL COPY command: if the name or type of the output file was explicitly specified, then no timestamps are propagated, but if they were taken implicitly from the input filespec, then all timestamps other than the revision date are propagated. If this parameter is not supplied, it defaults to 0. Like C, C returns 1 on success. If an error occurs, it sets C<$!>, deletes the output file, and returns 0. =head1 RETURN Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure. $! will be set if an error was encountered. =head1 AUTHOR File::Copy was written by Aaron Sherman Iajs@ajs.comE> in 1995. The VMS-specific code was added by Charles Bailey Ibailey@genetics.upenn.eduE> in March 1996. =cut