Hi All,

How can I copy/move dir with space. The Below code does not work. 

opendir(my $dir, "/pr/perl_by_example") or die;
opendir(my $dir2, "/pr/book") or die;


while (my $file=readdir($dir)) {
    next if $file =~ /\./;
    copy("/pr/perl_by_example/$file", "/pr/book/") or die;

}

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Here are the dirs: 

/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 03
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 04
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 05
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 06
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 07
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 08
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 09
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 10
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 11
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 12
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 13
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 14
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 15
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 16
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 17
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 18
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 19
/pr/perl_by_example/Chapter 20

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Thanks in advance

In reply to Copy dir with space by adriang

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