#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use File::Copy; use File::Path qw(make_path); use File::Spec::Functions; use File::Basename; my $dir = 'C:/dev'; my @files = grep { ! -d } <$dir/*>; FILE: foreach my $file (@files) { my ($name, $path, $suffix) = fileparse($file, qr/\.[^.]*/); $suffix or do { warn "$name does not have an ext\n"; next FILE; }; $suffix =~ s/\.//; # (optional) strip leading . my $subdir = catdir($path, $suffix); make_path($subdir) unless -d $subdir; move($file, $subdir) or warn "Failed to move $file to $subdir <$!>\n"; }