A couple of comments I'd like to make:

The first being two words: problem definition Have a clear understanding of what you want to accomplish. Be sure you research your solution and make sure you are not re-inventing the wheel. Under windows (and I'm not exactly a fan of windows, but I'll give credit where credit is due) there are already built into the WinBloze distribution tools to do what you are asking to do. One of these that comes to mind is xcopy. I don't know if I am dating myself but backup comes to mind as well (for all I know Microsoft may not include this in their distros any more.)

Second: If I approach this from a pure excercise of science then I would start my research by looking at

• File::Copy
• File::Find
• Archive::Tar
• Archive::Zip

just to name a few that come to mind.

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