use strict; use File::Copy; use POSIX; my @files = ('system.csv', 'sales.csv'); my $home = 'c:/EOD/20 January 2002/'; my $archive = 'y:/New EOD/'; my $yesterday = strftime("%d%m%y", localtime(time - 24*60*60)); for (@files){ copy $home.$_, "$archive${yesterday}_$_" or print "ERROR: Can't copy $_ : $!\n"; }