#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DB_File; use Data::Dumper; dbmopen my %NEWS_DB, "news.db", 0666 or die "Couldn't open news.db: $!\n"; my $news_db = \%NEWS_DB; my $data = Dumper $news_db; dbmopen my %NEW_DB, "new.db", 0666 or die "Couldn't open new.db: $!\n"; %NEW_DB = eval(Dumper($data));