I changed open to opendir, it was a mistake indeed... But it did not solve the problem.

Of course not. Neither open nor opendir makes any sense around copy.

I don't get any error messages when I run the program. I see 'x files have been copied', where x is the number of files I have, which means the loop runs once per file as expected. However, sometimes it copies, sometimes it does not. And I don't know why...

Show your current code.

Alexander

Alexander, this is my current code: (after I changed what I told you in my previous message, and it did not change anything)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Copy;
use warnings;

$dir="C:/Users/Beni/Documents/Master 2/_DOSSIERS/_Perl/dossiertest";
$cpt=0;
print"Souhaitez-vous supprimer les fichiers copies du dossier racine u
+ne fois la copie terminee ? (oui/non) : ";
chomp ($del = <>);

opendir(DIR,$dir) or die $! ; 

while($folder=readdir (DIR)) { 


    if ( -f "$dir/$folder") { 
        $folder =~m/(.+)?\.(.+)?/;
            
                if ( -d "$dir/Fichiers $2") { 
                    copy ("$folder","$dir/Fichiers $2/$folder");
                } else {        
                    $dirr = $dir . '/' . "Fichiers " . $2;
                    mkdir ("$dirr"); 
                    copy ("$folder","$dir/Fichiers $2") or die $! ;
                }
                
                $cpt++;
                    if ($del=~m/^oui$/i) {
                        unlink ("$dir/$folder") or die $! ;
                    }
                    
    }
}
print"$cpt copies effectuees";
close (DIR);
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• use strict; is still missing
• only one copy has an error check, the one that is less likely to be executed.
• mkdir has no error check.

Alexander

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