#!perl use strict; use warnings; use Time::Piece; use File::Copy; my $toDate = localtime->strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S'); my $dir = 'C:/data/app/AppSpecific1/In'; my $archiveDir = 'C:/data/app/AppSpecific1/archive'; opendir (my $dh, $dir) or die "Can't opendir $dir: $!"; while (my $file = readdir $dh) { next unless $file =~ /^test/; # filter as reqd my $srcFile = "$dir/$file"; next unless -f $srcFile; my $destFile = $archiveDir.'/'.$toDate.'_'.$file; print "copy $srcFile, $destFile\n"; copy ( $srcFile, $destFile) or die "Copy failed '$srcFile' to '$destFile' : $!"; } closedir $dh;