um, like this?:

$text = file1.txt
open (DAT,"$text");
@stuff = <DAT>;
close(DAT);

open (NEWDAT, ">file2.txt");
print @stuff;
close(NEWDAT);
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Or use File::Copy like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use File::Copy;

copy ("file1.txt","file2.txt");

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
#just to check...
if (-e "file2.txt"){
print "File copied";
}
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