The code you posted will try to execute: 
cp /home/wbill/lazarus/file1  file2 .

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You probably want something like: 
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @FILES = ('file1',' file2');
my $path = "/home/wbill/lazarus";

foreach my $this_file ( @FILES ) {
  `cp $path/$this_file .`;
}

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What the foreach does is take every item in the array @FILES and places it in the variable $this_file - which is then used in the backticks

More likely though you should consider using a module such as File::Copy rather than use backticks - it makes the code less platform dependent.

--tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics

In reply to Re: Hashes or arrays in the command line by EvdB
in thread Hashes or arrays in the command line by tux242

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