in reply to Hashes or arrays in the command line

You aren't using a hash, but a regular array. What you probably want is in File::Copy.

use File::Copy;
my @FILES = ('file1', 'file2');
copy( "/home/wbill/lazarus/$_", '.' ) foreach (@FILES);

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