I am attemting to open a file read its contents in and directly write them to another file. But when try to open a nother file it just shuts out??? 
$output_file = "ConsumerMV.sh";
$input_file = "mikels.out";
$quit_code = "quit\n";

open(FILE, $input_file);    #opens data.txt in read-mode
open(FILE, ">$output_file");    #opens file to be written to
    while(<FILE>){        #reads line by line from 
    chomp;
    print "Saw $_ in data.txt\n";
    print FILEHANDLE $_;                    #print the output file con
+tents
}
close $input_file;                        #close the file.
#close $output_file;                        #close the file.

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