Sorry for stating this so flatly, but you should really do a checksum on the original and compare it to your copy before unlink()ing the orginal. Have a look at Digest::MD5, which seems to be very popular. You could also call the *NIX command 'cksum' (which probably has been ported to Windows, or at least has an equivalent) and get very similar results.

Also, when handling errors, try 'die' instead of 'print', so Perl will return the right error level: unlink( "$_" ) or die "Couldn't delete file: $_\n"; If you add an 'or die' to the copy operation, it will only attempt to delete the orginal if the copy is successful.

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Allolex

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

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