use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $file = $ARGV[0]; my $new_file = $file . '.new'; open (my $fh, "<", $file) or die $!; open (my $new_fh, ">", $new_file) or die $!; while (my $line = <$fh>){ print $new_fh "$line"; } close $fh; close $new_fh;