Hello Monks, I have script that copies a large file across the network to a storage device. But I'm about to incorporate a delete procedure to erase the file from its source location once it finishes copying to destination location. It takes about one hour and half to copy across the network. I wish that it could be another way to acomplish this task. Should I include a timer or is there a function of copying until EOF to delete the file once it finished copying? I appreciate your suggestions. 
#!/perl


use warnings;
use File::Copy;
use File::Find;


find(\&wanted, 'M:\\(Directory)');


sub wanted {
    if ($File::Find::name =~ /\.BAK$/) {
        my $copyname = "I:\\(Directory0)\\(Directory1)\\(Directory2)/$
+_";
        print "Copying $_ from $File::Find::dir to $copyname\n";
        copy("$File::Find::name","$copyname");
    }
}



$dir = "M:\\(Directory)";

print "Starting Delete Process\n\n";

opendir(DIR, "$dir") || die "No $dir: $!";
@files = grep(!/^\./, readdir(DIR));
@files = sort @files;
closedir(DIR);

foreach (@files)
{
    print $_, "\n";
        if (/\.BAK$/i)
        {
        unlink ("$dir/$_") if (-f "$dir/$_") || 
            print "Unable to delete $_: $!";
    }
}

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In reply to Copying a large file (6Gigs) across the network and deleting it at source location by skyler

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