Re: Trying to set the iCloud directory in Perl, but failing

The leading tilde ("~") is the problem. It's specific to the shell. Perl
doesn't recognize it. Perl treats that first tilde as a directory. The
error is telling you that a directory named "~" doesn't exist.

You can use the full path name, like this: my $MyiCloudLoc =
q[/home/jdoe/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs];

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 4:35 PM wagsworld48 via beginners <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have:
> my $MyiCloudLoc = q[~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs];
>
> Then:
> chdir($MyiCloudLoc) or die "$!";
>
> Error is “no such file or directory”
>
> Yet if I do the following in terminal:
>
> Cd  ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs
>
> It changes to that directory.
>
> Seems simple, but not understanding what I am doing wrong.
>
> Thanks for any info… ;)
>
> Wags ;)
> WagsWorld
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