I'm finally close to get it working. However I run this code but it doesnt copy any files. It doesn't give me any errors. Could anybody look at my code to see if I'm missing anything or need to change my code??? Basically the code reads a file an grabs an array of directory paths, then I use File::Find recursevily to go over each one of those path to copy a "word1.rtf" file to a new directory call "C:\testfiles" I really need help ...I've been working on this for two weeks without success. Now, I could change my code to copy only one file and it stops. But I want to be able to go to every single directory and grab its RTF file. I know that I'm close ..please help!! 
#! perl 

use strict;
use File::Copy;
use File::Find;

no warnings 'File::Find';

my $infile = "c:\\doclist1.chr";
my @directories;

# first lets build our directory list
open IN, "<$infile" or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
while (<IN>) {
    chomp;
    my @fields   = split /,/;
    my $path_str = $fields[6];
    do { warn "Empty field 7"; next } unless $path_str;
    my @path = split /\\/, $path_str;
    # push the directories into an array
    push @directories, join "\\", @path[ 0, 5, 6 ];
}
close IN;

exit;

# now we have a directory list in @directories let's process it
# for my $dir ( @directories ) {
#    process_directories($dir);
#}

sub process_directories {
    if (/\.rtf$/) {
    push @directories, $File::Find::name;

    copy($File::Find::name, "C:\\testfiles\\$_") or die "Failed to cop
+y $_: $!\n";
    }    
}
find(\&process_directories, $File::Find::dir);

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In reply to finding files and copying them using File::Fiind & File::Copy by skyler

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