Hi Monks,

I am trying to move files / folders in a particular directory to a new subfolder within it using perl script.

It works for Linux but not in AIX. The same command works on command line without any errors but gives error when run via perl script. Any suggestions on what could be wrong? 

$ nl move_files.pl
     1  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
     2  use File::Find;

     3  sub my_move_log_files {
     4  # Get Directory names for moving files;
     5  my @log_dirs_to_move = @_;
     6  my $src_dir;
                foreach $src_dir (@log_dirs_to_move) {
                        my $move_cur_logs_cmd="cd $src_dir; mkdir -p $
+src_dir/logs_dir\$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S); mv \`/bin/ls -A | grep -v log
+s_dir\` \$_";
                        print "$move_cur_logs_cmd \n";
                        system("$move_cur_logs_cmd");
                }
     7     return 1;
     8  }

     9  my @found;
    10  sub findstuff {
    11      my $file = $_;
    12      return unless -f $file;
    13      my $fullpath = $File::Find::name;
    14      push @found, $fullpath;
    15  }

    16  my $dir_to_search = "/home/user1/test";

    17  find(\&findstuff, $dir_to_search);
    18  print "Before move: ";
    19  print "@found\n";

    20  my $result=my_move_log_files($dir_to_search);

    21  find(\&findstuff, $dir_to_search);
    22  print "After move: ";
    23  print "@found\n";
24 print "Sample Run: \n";
25 print "----------------\n"
$ perl move_files.pl
Before move: /home/user1/test/a.txt /home/user1/test/aa.txt /home/user
+1/test/aaa.txt /home/user1/test/aaaa.txt
cd /home/user1/test; mkdir -p /home/user1/test/logs_dir$(date +%Y%m%d%
+H%M%S); mv `/bin/ls -A | grep -v logs_dir` $_
Usage: mv [-I] [ -d | -e] [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src t
+arget
   or: mv [-I] [-d | -e] [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src1 .
+.. srcN directory
After move: /home/user1/test/a.txt /home/user1/test/aa.txt /home/user1
+/test/aaa.txt /home/user1/test/aaaa.txt /home/user1/test/a.txt /home/
+user1/test/aa.txt /home/user1/test/aaa.txt /home/user1/test/aaaa.txt
$
$
$ ls -l ../test/
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 a.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 aa.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 aaa.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 aaaa.txt
drwxr-xr-x    2 user1  user1         256 May 28 18:47 logs_dir20150528
+184713
$
$ cd /home/user1/test; mkdir -p /home/user1/test/logs_dir$(date +%Y%m%
+d%H%M%S); mv `/bin/ls -A | grep -v logs_dir` $_
$pwd
/home/user1/test
$
$ ls -ltr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 user1  user1         256 May 28 18:47 logs_dir20150528
+184713
drwxr-xr-x    2 user1  user1         256 May 28 18:53 logs_dir20150528
+185347
$ ls -l logs_dir20150528185347
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 a.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 aa.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 aaa.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 user1  user1           0 May 28 02:10 aaaa.txt
$

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