Dear Fellow Monks,
I've been racking my trying to figure out why the dircopy function of File::Copy::Recursive behaves in the following way with the below code:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use File::Copy;
use File::Copy::Recursive qw ( dircopy );

my $machine = Win32::NodeName;
my $shop = substr($machine,0,4);
my $snum = substr($machine,5); 
my $BOX1 = $shop . "1" . $snum;
my $BOX2 = $shop . "2" . $snum;

print " ###################\n";
print " # COPYING TIREPIX #\n";
print " ###################\n";

my $box1_tirepix_dir = "\\\\$BOX1\\e\\dbmonro\\tirepics";
my $box2_tirepix_dir = "\\\\$BOX2\\e\\dbmonro\\tirepics";

print "Copying from $box1_tirepix_dir to $box2_tirepix_dir\n";

print "Removing $box2_tirepix_dir\n";
system("rmdir /S /Q $box2_tirepix_dir") or print localtime()." in syst
+em TIREPIX rmdir: $!\n";
sleep(10);
print "creating directory $box2_tirepix_dir\n";
mkdir($box2_tirepix_dir) or print " in TIREPIX mkdir: $!\n";

dircopy($box1_tirepix_dir,$box2_tirepix_dir) || print " TIREPIX dircop
+y: $!\n";
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RESULTS:

1. The tirepics directory is properly copied as expected with all directories and files.
2. On computer 1, an added directory c:\SHOP20003 with only a directory structure and no files.
3. Computer 1 is where the script it called from.

NOTES:

1. There are 2 computers networked together. One named SHOP10003 and the other is SHOP20003.
2. Computer 1 is where the script it called from.
3. It appears that dircopy is producing a side-effect of copying the directory structure of the source directory but I don't know why. Any insights from my brethren would be appreciated.

Dave