Perl Tutorial - 57 Creating Directories Video Lecture - Perl Building Blocks

hello guys welcome to my channel this is
the 57th tutorial in this course and in
this tutorial we're going to learn to
create a folder using pearls so I have a
script here that's called create
underscore directory and in this script
on line number three I have created a
scalar variable called folder and in
this variable I have stored the full
path of the folder that I want to create
so let's say I want to create a folder
called new folder within a folder called
Perl scripts that is present in the
Documents folder on my system so you
know this is the folder in which I want
to create the folder new folder and at
the moment it does not have any folders
it just has Perl scripts and it has one
Excel document that's all it has there
are 63 items in total 62 Perl scripts in
one excel document and in this directory
we want to create another folder called
new folder so the command that you use
to do this or the statement that you use
to do this in Perl is mkdir and this is
perhaps the most common name for the
command to create directories I reckon
even with command prompt you use mkdir
as the command to create folders and in
Perl it's no different and just as we
used an if statement along with the the
rename command a couple of tutorials ago
that's that's what we're going to do
here just so we know that the command
was executed successfully so I have an
if statement on line number five and
within parentheses I have mkdir and then
I have the full path of the folder and
that is contained in the scalar variable
folder and then inside the if block if
this would if this would work properly
then we would get to the print statement
on line number seven which is going to
display the message directory created
successfully and if it would not work
correctly then we would get inside the
else block and we would execute the
print statement on line number eleven
and see the text unable to create
directory so
at the moment it does not have any
folder and it definitely does not have a
folder that's called new folder so
there's no reason why this command
should not work I'll press f5 and there
we go we see the message directly
created successfully if I would go to
this folder and stroll up to the top I
see that I have this for a new folder
now and now that we have a folder of
that name if I would try to run the
script again after closing the previous
output window I would see the message
unable to create directory because since
there is already a folder there that's
called new folder we do not have
permission to create another folder of
the same name perhaps if I would put two
here or if I would change the name to
something else like a new folder version
two then it would probably work again so
that's it for this tutorial I hope you
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