Question

As suggested by Chris, a user on this site. In the 1st perl script: The values are stored in the dictionary.The first script is fine.The first script runs for only one time and stores the values. It is working.

In the 2nd script:

my $processed = retrieve(‘processed_dirs.dat’); # $processed is a hashref

Here it is reading the “processed_durs.dat” which is in the first script. So, I am just wondering how the second script knows the location of Processed_dirs.dat here?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Storable;

# This script to be run 1 time only. Sets up 'processed' directories hash.
# After this script is run, ready to run the daily script.

my $dir = '.'; # or what ever directory the date-directories are stored in

opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Opening failed for directory $dir $!";
my @dir = grep {-d && /^\d\d-\d\d-\d\d$/ && $_ le '11-04-21'} readdir $dh;
closedir $dh or die "Unable to close $dir $!";

my %processed = map {$_ => 1} @dir;

store \%processed, 'processed_dirs.dat';

2nd Script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Copy;
use Storable;

my $dir = shift or die "Provide path on command line. $!";

my $processed = retrieve('processed_dirs.dat'); # $processed is a hashref

opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Opening failed for directory $dir $!";
my @dir = grep {-d && /^\d\d-\d\d-\d\d$/ && !$processed->{$_} } readdir $dh;
closedir $dh or die "Unable to close $dir $!";
@dir or die "Found no unprocessed date directories";

my $fdir = '/some/example/path';

for my $date (@dir) {
    my $dday = "$dir/$date";
    my @gzfiles = glob("$dday/*tar.gz");

    foreach my $zf (@gzfiles) {  
        next if $zf =~ /BMP/ || $zf =~ /LG/ || $zf =~ /MAP/ || $zf =~ /STR/; 
        print "$zf\n";
        copy($zf, $fdir) or die "Unable to copy $zf to $fdir. $!";
    }
    $processed->{ $date } = 1;
}
store $processed, 'processed_dirs.dat';

Answer 1

Unless I’m missing something, the answer is: Both scripts use a file called “processed_dirs.dat“, in whatever directory they are run from. So as long as both scripts are run from the same directory, they will both use the same file.