File::Find::Rule is a nice, easy to use distribution that allows you to use any valid regex (including standard glob type *.txt wildcards) to search with. Here's an example using it, along with File::Copy.

use warnings;
use strict;

use File::Copy;
use File::Find::Rule;

my $from_dir = '/home/steve/repos/berrybrew';
my $to_dir   = 'out';

my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()
                            ->name('*.txt', '*.cs')
                            ->in($from_dir);

for (@files){
    copy $_, $to_dir or die $!;
}

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That copied all *.txt and *.cs files from one directory to another, recursively.

To disable recursion, add another chained method call:

->in($from_dir)
->maxdepth(0);   # descend zero levels below root of $from_dir

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In reply to Re: File::Copy and wildcards by stevieb
in thread File::Copy and wildcards by RickNak

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