Here is a pure perl method I made up after endless searching and having people tell me to use modules. This is such a simple concept, a required external module seems pretty lame. I have also made a recursive directory deleter so I/You can eliminate the need for File::Path qw(remove_tree) and File::Copy::Recursive qw(rcopy) altogether. If you use these together you can easily conduct a dir_move. And finally I included an fmove(); (you could use rename for certain instances obviously and fmove is identical to fcopy except for a final unlink) but if you were to combine fmove() into dircopy you could make a single sub/function to move a folder in one shot instead of recursive copy and then recursive delete.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict; use warnings;

dircopy($ARGV[0],$ARGV[1]);

sub dircopy {
my @dirlist=($_[0]);
my @dircopy=($_[1]);
until (scalar(@dirlist)==0) {
    mkdir "$dircopy[0]";
    opendir my($dh),$dirlist[0];
    my @filelist=grep {!/^\.\.?$/} readdir $dh;
    for my $i (0..scalar(@filelist)-1) {
        if ( -f "$dirlist[0]/$filelist[$i]" ) {
            fcopy("$dirlist[0]/$filelist[$i]","$dircopy[0]/$filelist[$
+i]");
        }
        if ( -d "$dirlist[0]/$filelist[$i]" ) {
            push @dirlist,"$dirlist[0]/$filelist[$i]";
            push @dircopy,"$dircopy[0]/$filelist[$i]";
        }
    }
    closedir $dh;
    shift @dirlist;shift @dircopy;
}
}

sub fcopy {
my ($i,$data,$cpo,$cpn);
open($cpo,"<",$_[0]) or die $!; binmode($cpo);
open($cpn,">",$_[1]) or die $!; binmode($cpn);
while (($i=sysread $cpo,$data,4096)!=0){print $cpn $data};
close($cpn);close($cpo);
}
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And here is the recursive directory deleter...

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict; use warnings;

dir_del($ARGV[0]);

sub dir_del {
my @dirlist=("$_[0]");
my $r=0; my $s=scalar(@dirlist);
while ( $r < $s ) {
    opendir my($dh),$dirlist[$r];
    my @filelist=grep {!/^\.\.?$/} readdir $dh;
    for my $i ( 0..scalar(@filelist)-1 ) {
        if ( -f "$dirlist[$r]/$filelist[$i]" ) {
            unlink("$dirlist[$r]/$filelist[$i]");
        } else {
            push @dirlist,"$dirlist[$r]/$filelist[$i]";
            $s=scalar(@dirlist);
        }
    }
    closedir $dh;$r+=1;
}
my $a=scalar(@dirlist)-1;
for my $i ( 0..scalar(@dirlist)-1 ) {
    rmdir($dirlist[$a]);$a-=1;
}
}
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Just a side note: When using these make sure you run -d tests if you are not certain your target is a folder or a file. If it's just a file you can } else { unlink(file);}

sub fmove {
my ($i,$data,$mvo,$mvn);
open($mvo,"<",$_[0]) or die $!; binmode($mvo);
open($mvn,">",$_[1]) or die $!; binmode($mvn);
while (($i=sysread $mvo,$data,4096)!=0){print $mvn $data};
close($mvn);close($mvo);unlink($_[0]);
}
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