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in reply to overwrite a file

I'm assuming you're using File::Copy.

What are you trying? I can do the following (where both tmp.pl and tmp.log exist) with no problems:
perl -MFile::Copy -le 'File::Copy::copy("tmp.log", "tmp.pl");'
Do you maybe not have write permissions?
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