I fail to understand your point. The problem wasn't that he used 'system', the problem was that he used single quotes instead of double quotes. Given the mistake, the system solution works better than your suggestion - at least that solution gave error messsages. But:

    use File::Copy;

    move ($OutFile, '$List/archive.html');
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would fail silently because you didn't check the return value of move.

Abigail