Re: [SLUG] gzip from perl script

["Voytek" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Jacinta Richardson">
> Voytek wrote:

> My apologies.  Although I do find that it's usually better to to assume
> that people who are asking about an existing Perl program are more often
> Perl
> literate than they are Perl newbies.  :)

no need to apologize, I'm flattered

> On further thought you proably want to change this die to the following:

> warn "Failed to remove $database-$oldyear$oldmonth$oldday.sql.gz: $!";
>
> as failing to delete might not be important enough to stop doing all the
> backups.

yes, 'die' was a show stopper, 'warn' is better
(especially as I'm deleting 3 generations prior, anyhow)


I just need to force a 'y' here, or pass to gzip

...screen snip---
gzip: /backup/mysql/postfix-20050922.sql.gz already exists; do you wish to
overwrite (y or n)?
...

thanks for all the help,


-- 
Voytek