#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use POSIX qw(strftime); =for Will execute as a cronjob every evening @10PM. The "SequencingResults" dir is where the search will begin. The script will search subdirs based on the date. If the current date is " 01-16-09", then the path will be "SequencingResults/RESULTS 2009/JAN 2009/Results 01-16-09". If the first file has either LacZ|pgK|SD|SU then it will mv that file to $seqdir. It will do this recursively for each file. =cut my $topdir = "/home/mgavi/testdir1"; my @subdirs = get_sub_dirs($topdir); my $bottomdir = strftime "Results %m-%d-%y", localtime; # This keeps track of the current year my $yeardir = $year # This date will be passed readdir to get the current subdir my $date = strftime "%m-%d-%y", localtime; print "$date\n"; sub get_sub_dirs { my $dir = shift; opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Error: $!"; #print "$dh\n"; #this is your glob my @dirs = readdir $dh; #@dirs = grep /^Results(.*)$/,@dirs; @dirs = grep /^RESULTS(.*)$/,@dirs; closedir $dh; return @dirs; } print "subdirs = @subdirs\n"; foreach my $dir(@subdirs){ opendir my $dh, "$topdir/$dir" or die "Error: $!"; print $dh; my @files = readdir $dh; #print "raw files = @files\n"; @files = grep /^(\d+\D\d)_(LacZ|pgK|SD|SU)$/,@files; #print "$dir -> @files\n"; # create dir for raw seq files with permissions my $seqdir = "/home/mgavi/testdir2/SeqAssembly"; mkdir $seqdir, 0755; foreach my $file(@files){ system( "mv $topdir/$bottomdir/$dir/$file $seqdir/$file"); } closedir $dh; }