in reply to File::Copy versus cp/mv

File::Copy doesn't do directories. It also doesn't respect execution bits. What it does do is copy faster than cp. (And, you can increase that speed to the max your hardware can handle.)

I have wrapped around File::Copy to meet the needs of the application I work with, handling directories and copying to a temp-name, then moving, so as to only have the name appear when the file is fully copied. (500M over a network can be less than instantaneous, but File::Copy does help.)

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